Bourne Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1988. A C16 House. 6 related planning applications.

Bourne Farmhouse

WRENN ID
carved-cobalt-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1988
Type
House
Address
Bourne Farmhouse, Bourne Road, Bilsington, TN25 7AR
OS grid reference
TR 044 365
Coordinates
51.09202, 0.9178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bourne Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with 18th-century cladding. It is timber framed and covered with red and blue brick, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building features a four-bay lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a galletted ragstone plinth, with a brick eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof that has gablets and a central left stack. On the first floor, there are two sashes with vertical glazing bars, a smaller sash to the right, and a blank window space to the centre left. The ground floor has three wooden casements with segmental cornice-heads, and a boarded door is located to the centre left. There is a catslide outshot and a 20th-century extension at the rear.

Inside, the full frame is visible, showcasing stop-chamfered beams and evidence of close-studded exterior walls. The roof has been renewed with clasped purlins. The interior also features inglenooks with salt-recesses, iron pot hooks, integral seating, and a bread oven. A straight flight stair from the 18th century has splat balusters on a carved string. The doors have raised and fielded panels with strap hinges.

Local climate

Bourne Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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