Thorne Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Thorne Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-paling-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thorne Farmhouse, Forge Hill, Bethersden, TN26 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 931 402
- Coordinates
- 51.1287, 0.75917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorne Farmhouse is an early 18th-century building of red brick, situated in Bethersden. It is two storeys and attics in height, with a hipped tiled roof punctuated by two gabled dormers, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The facade features five sash windows with intact glazing bars. A doorcase incorporates pilasters, a pediment, a rectangular fanlight, and a door of six fielded panels. The first floor of the south front is tile-hung. Internally, a staircase from the 18th century displays two twisted balusters to each step, and a fireplace is adorned with a Bethersden marble chimney piece.
Local climate
Thorne Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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