May Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
May Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-gallery-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- May Farmhouse, Woodchurch
- OS grid reference
- TQ 956 356
- Coordinates
- 51.0865, 0.79175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that may have been built around the core of an earlier structure. The building was refenestrated in the 20th century. The front elevation is rendered, while the right side elevation is made of brick, partly in English bond. The rear elevation features a painted brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. The roof is hipped and tiled, with two hips at the rear. On the right side, there is a large red brick external chimney stack that includes two windows, along with two additional chimney stacks on each side of the house.
The farmhouse has two storeys and three windows, with 20th-century casements, mostly tripartite. There is a 20th-century porch with a half-hipped tiled roof and metal glazing. Inside, the lounge features chamfered axial beams and exposed floor joists, along with a massive chamfered wooden bressumer over the fireplace, which includes seats. The kitchen has a chamfered spine beam and exposed floor joists. The dining room contains 18th-century joists that are now exposed but were originally concealed. The frame is visible on the upper floor, including partition walls with diagonal braces and plank doors fitted with pintle hinges.
Local climate
May 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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