Lower Bean Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Farmhouse.
Lower Bean Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-clay-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Bean Farmhouse, Bean Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 585 722
- Coordinates
- 51.42677, 0.27851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Bean Farmhouse is a 17th century or earlier L-shaped timber-framed building. The southwest front is faced with plaster and some roughcast, while the southeast front features weatherboarding. It has a modern tiled roof with one gabled dormer on the southwest elevation. The farmhouse mostly has sash windows with intact glazing bars, although there are some casement windows. Notably, the east window bay of the southwest front extends out on wooden brackets and is faced with roughcast, topped with a gable.
Local climate
Lower Bean Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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