Cooks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cooks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-doorway-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cooks Farmhouse, Tapleys Hill, Lower Hardres and Nackington, CT4 5PA
- OS grid reference
- TR 154 520
- Coordinates
- 51.22686, 1.08413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooks Farmhouse is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building featuring red brick infilling. The south half of the west front has been refaced and built out in red brick. The farmhouse stands two storeys tall beneath a hipped tiled roof, which is topped with a 17th century brick chimneystack. It has a mix of casement windows and sash windows with intact glazing bars, with two windows facing west and two facing north. An L-wing, added in the 18th century, is located to the east and consists of one window bay made of flint. The building has a simple doorcase.
Local climate
Cooks Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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