Forstal Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Forstal Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-gateway-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Forstal Farmhouse, Smarden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 856 398
- Coordinates
- 51.1281, 0.65188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century or earlier timber-framed farmhouse. The front elevation has been refaced with stucco, and the first floor projects outwards, supported by a bressumer with a cove underneath. The side elevations feature red brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding above. The farmhouse is two storeys high with a hipped tiled roof and two casement windows.
Local climate
Forstal 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 greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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