Howletts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Farmhouse.

Howletts Farmhouse

WRENN ID
strange-pavement-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Howletts Farmhouse, Bekesbourne Lane, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne
OS grid reference
TR 194 563
Coordinates
51.26386, 1.14398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Howletts Farmhouse is an 18th-century building located on Bekesbourne Lane. It is a two-storey structure made of red brick with grey headers. The farmhouse features a tiled roof with gable ends that have brick kneelers. There are three cambered casement windows, and one bay remains on the ground floor. The entrance has a simple cambered doorcase and is set on a brick plinth.

Local climate

Howletts 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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