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

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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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