Lower Ensden Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Ensden Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- nether-truss-barley
- 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
- Lower Ensden Farmhouse, Lower Ensden Road, Chilham, CT4 8BA
- OS grid reference
- TR 074 556
- Coordinates
- 51.26269, 0.97192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Ensden Farmhouse is a 17th and early 18th century farmhouse located on the east side of Lower Ensden Road, in Chilham, near Old Wives Lees. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof. The south front features a weathered plinth and a modillion eaves cornice to a kneelered parapet-gabled roof, with projecting offset end stacks. The fenestration is regular with three windows per floor. The ground floor windows are glazing bar sashes set within segmental headed openings. The central ground floor window occupies the location of a former doorway, with the current entrance now on the left side of the front facade. A 17th century brick rear wing is also present.
Local climate
Lower Ensden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 2009
- 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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