Pontus Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Pontus Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-gable-vetch
- 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
- Pontus Farmhouse, Knockwood Lane, Molash, CT4 8HW
- OS grid reference
- TR 020 524
- Coordinates
- 51.2357, 0.89311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pontus Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that was clad around 1700. It features a timber frame covered in painted brick, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has a lobby entry and stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a plat band and a hipped roof. There is a central stack on the right side and a projecting end on the left. The ground floor has three casement windows, each with segmental heads. To the right of the centre is an 8-panelled door with a flat hood supported by brackets, along with a round-headed basement opening to the right.
Local climate
Pontus Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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