Smith's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Smith's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-slate-indigo
- 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
- Smith's Farmhouse, Bridge Road, Kenardington, TN26 2BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 969 316
- Coordinates
- 51.05001, 0.80897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smith's Farmhouse is a late medieval timber-framed building that has been refaced with painted brick. It features an 18th-century weatherboarded left wing and has a hipped tiled roof with gables. A 17th-century brick chimneystack is present, along with a stringcourse and a stone plinth. The farmhouse has four casement windows.
Local climate
Smith's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- 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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