Dowle Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Dowle Street Farmhouse

WRENN ID
veiled-landing-mallow
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
Dowle Street Farmhouse, Dowle Street Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RY
OS grid reference
TQ 936 437
Coordinates
51.16057, 0.76767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dowle Street Farmhouse is an L-shaped building that likely dates from the 17th century, with the north wing refaced in stucco. It has two storeys and features a hipped tiled roof with a heavy modillion eaves cornice and a stringcourse. The north wing includes three Dering windows, which have cambered brick head linings above the round-headed lights, with keyblocks at the angles and in the centre of the heads. There is a doorcase with a flat hood supported by scroll brackets. The south wing, dating from the 18th century, is constructed of red brick with grey headers and also has two storeys and a tiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice. It features three casement windows and a similar doorcase.

Local climate

Dowle Street 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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