Cork Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cork Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-soffit-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cork Farmhouse, Long Hill, Chilham, CT4 8BN
- OS grid reference
- TR 070 546
- Coordinates
- 51.25308, 0.96622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cork Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse located on Long Hill in Old Wives Lees. It features a chequered brick exterior and a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys set on a plinth, with a plat band and a gabled roof that includes two hipped dormers and end stacks on the left and right sides. The front has a regular arrangement of three wooden casement windows with segmental heads on the ground floor, and a four-panelled door located slightly to the right, which is topped by a flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Cork Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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