Vale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Residential.
Vale Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-chalk-vermeil
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- Vale Farmhouse, Barnet's Lane, Sturry
- OS grid reference
- TR 166 623
- Coordinates
- 51.31881, 1.10742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vale Farmhouse is a two-storey building with attics, constructed between 1635 and 1645. It features painted brick walls and a tiled roof, which includes a gable with an attic window. The farmhouse has three casement windows and a 19th-century gabled porch. The south gable end displays the date 1635 in brick, while the north gable end shows the date 1645. Additionally, there is an 18th-century L-wing located behind the main structure.
Local climate
Vale 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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