Merton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. Farmhouse.
Merton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-wattle-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Merton Farmhouse, Merton Lane, Lower Hardres and Nackington
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 552
- Coordinates
- 51.25586, 1.07934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merton Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high with an attic, constructed from red brick. It features a tiled roof adorned with a modillion cornice and has two dormers. The façade includes three sash windows, all of which retain their glazing bars. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase set within a frame that includes a pediment, a rectangular fanlight, and a six-paned moulded door.
Local climate
Merton 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 lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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