The gateway of St Nicholas's Hospital and St Nicholas's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, chantry house. 3 related planning applications.
The gateway of St Nicholas's Hospital and St Nicholas's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-iron-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, chantry house
- Address
- The gateway of St Nicholas's Hospital and St Nicholas's Farmhouse, Church Hill, Harbledown, Kent, Harbledown and Rough Common, CT2 9AD
- OS grid reference
- TR 130 581
- Coordinates
- 51.28308, 1.05343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway of St Nicholas's Hospital and St Nicholas's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed structure that originally served as a chantry house, dating from the 16th century or earlier and remodelled in 1685.
The building features a timber-framed construction, partly rebuilt in brick, with plaster and brick infill, and some areas of tile-hanging, topped with a tiled roof. The gateway is located at the south-east end of the range and includes a pedestrian archway on the ground floor, flanked by heavy timber posts. Above the archway is a half-hipped gable that contains an attic window. This gable is plastered on the north-east front and tile-hung on the south-west, both oversailing on a bressumer.
The farmhouse, which was originally the chantry house, displays some exposed timber framing with plaster and red-brick infill. The south front is two storeys high and features three casement windows, all tile-hung. The north-east front has been largely rebuilt in red brick and includes a stone inscribed "WPO 1685," marking the date when the rest of the hospital was reconstructed.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The gateway of St Nicholas's Hospital and St Nicholas's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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