Elizabeth Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.
Elizabeth Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-spandrel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elizabeth Farmhouse, Smarden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 865 410
- Coordinates
- 51.13793, 0.66528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elizabeth Farmhouse is a 15th-century timber-framed and close-studded cottage located on Smarden Road in Biddenden. The ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick with grey headers, while the first floor overhangs on a moulded bressummer, featuring an oversailing gable above. The building is one storey high with attics and has a tiled roof. It includes casement windows and an oriel window on the first floor, which consists of two tiers of seven lights, supported by wooden mullions and a transom, with a cove beneath it. The west wall has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is tile hung above.
Local climate
Elizabeth 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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