Forstal Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. House.

Forstal Farmhouse

WRENN ID
worn-moulding-rush
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1957
Type
House
Address
Forstal Farmhouse, Spelders Hill, Brook
OS grid reference
TR 062 440
Coordinates
51.1581, 0.94798
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forstal Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It features a timber frame clad with red brick and tile hanging on the first floor, with ragstone on the return elevations. The roof is plain tiled and hipped. The house consists of four framed bays with a cross-passage and is two storeys high. There are stacks on the left side and at the end left. The first floor has two glazing bar sash windows and wooden casements to the centre and right. On the ground floor, there is a glazing bar sash to the left and a central wooden casement, along with a boarded door to the right. A catslide outshot is present at the rear.

Inside, the farmhouse was originally jettied on three sides and features moulded ceiling beams and a moulded chimney bressumer with foliate spandrels, as well as four-centred arches through the passage doorway spandrels leading to the service rooms. There is a dog leg stair with a panelled balustrade and poppyhead newels. The upper hall, which was originally unheated, has a crown post roof and was ceiled in the 17th century.

Local climate

Forstal 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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