Blinks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Blinks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-stair-plum
- 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
- Blinks Farmhouse, Bethersden Road, Smarden, TN27 8QR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 409
- Coordinates
- 51.13656, 0.69035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blinks Farmhouse, formerly known as Taunton Cottages and No 1 Taunton Cottages, is an L-shaped, two-storey timber-framed building dating from the 17th century or earlier. The timber framing and plaster infilling are exposed on the first floor of the north wing, while the rest of the building has been refaced with red brick and grey headers. It features a hipped tiled roof with a gable end on the west wing and a hipped dormer on the north wing. The farmhouse has four casement windows and a brick chimney breast located on the south wall.
Local climate
Blinks 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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