Kemphall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Kemphall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-minaret-brook
- 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
- Kemphall Farmhouse, 29, Westbere Lane
- OS grid reference
- TR 193 610
- Coordinates
- 51.30615, 1.14517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemphall Farmhouse is an L-shaped building dating from the 15th century and later, with two storeys and four windows. It features a hipped tiled roof and casement windows. The entrance has a simple doorcase with a pedimented weatherhood. The south wing is timber-framed, likely from the 15th century, with the first floor of its west front close-studded and plaster infilling, while the first floor of the east front has red brick infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick. The west wing, dating from the 18th century, is made of red brick with grey headers and is covered in ivy. This wing also has an external brick chimney stack with tumbling-in. The close-studded portion of the building is dated 1356.
Local climate
Kemphall 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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