Water Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Water Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-banister-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Water Farmhouse, Batemans Corner, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 936 403
- Coordinates
- 51.12995, 0.76671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Farmhouse is a 17th-century or earlier timber-framed building. The ground floor is now rendered, while the first floor has been refaced with curved tiles. The roof is tiled and has a half-hipped end. A 17th-century chimney stack remains. There are three casement windows.
Local climate
Water 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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