Little Kensham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Farmhouse.
Little Kensham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-casement-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Kensham Farmhouse, Sandhurst Road, Rolvenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 824 296
- Coordinates
- 51.03748, 0.60089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Kensham Farmhouse is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed building that was refronted in the 18th century. It has two storeys, with the side elevation featuring close-studded framing and two original mullioned window frames. The hipped tiled roof includes former smoke louvres and a 17th century chimneystack. The front elevation also has two storeys, with the ground floor weatherboarded and the first floor tile hung. There are three casement windows, and a modern porch with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets and two rustic wooden pillars.
Local climate
Little Kensham Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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