Port Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Port Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-spindle-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Port Farmhouse, Island Road, Chislet, CT3 4DA
- OS grid reference
- TR 224 626
- Coordinates
- 51.31958, 1.1917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Port Farmhouse is a 15th-century timber-framed building that is faced with plaster and sits on a base of painted brick. The first floor at the west end overhangs significantly on brackets on its south, west, and north sides and is tile hung. The roof is hipped and tiled, featuring a 17th-century brick chimney stack and a pentice at the back. The building has two storeys and four windows. On the first floor, there are casement windows, while the ground floor has triple sash windows with intact glazing bars. A modern gabled porch has been added. Inside, the farmhouse features a crownpost roof and an embattled beam.
Local climate
Port Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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