Phyllis Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Phyllis Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-hall-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Phyllis Farmhouse, Selling Road, Chilham, CT4 8BE
- OS grid reference
- TR 070 552
- Coordinates
- 51.25877, 0.96559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Phyllis Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on the east side of Selling Road in Old Wives Lees. It features a timber frame clad in rendered brick with a plain tile roof. The building has a projecting stack on the left and a ridge stack positioned towards the center left. It follows a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall, resting on a plinth with a dog-tooth eaves cornice. The facade includes three windows with wooden casements and a 20th-century glazed door with a flat hood to the center left. To the right, there is a 17th-century red brick outshot, and the rear is adorned with tile hanging.
Local climate
Phyllis 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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