Friary Court Friary Court and Old Friary Old Friary is a Grade II* listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A Medieval Residential. 1 related planning application.

Friary Court Friary Court and Old Friary Old Friary

WRENN ID
other-facade-bramble
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dartford
Constituency
Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Residential
Period
Medieval
Address
Friary Court Friary Court and Old Friary Old Friary, Hook Green Road, Southfleet, DA13 9NQ
OS grid reference
TQ 612 708
Coordinates
51.41388, 0.31776
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friary Court and Old Friary, formerly known as The Rectory, is a 14th-century house likely built by Thomas de Alkham, who was the rector of Southfleet from 1323. The building has been altered and enlarged in the 19th century. The west and south fronts represent the main medieval part of the structure. It is two storeys high with attics, featuring four windows and three gabled dormers on the west side. Originally, the house was faced with flints, but some areas have been refaced in cement. The roof is hipped and tiled, with the right-hand portion having a gablet that was originally a smoke louvre.

On the first floor, there is one trefoil-headed lancet window, and on the ground floor, there is a window with two wider trefoil-headed lights and a dripstone above. The other windows are from the 18th or 19th century. The west front is also faced with flints, but the south half has a gabled projection that was added in the 16th or 17th century. The north end of the building is a 19th-century addition that includes a bell in the attic storey. Inside, the layout consists of an open hall and cross wings, with the south wing containing the solar. This wing features a hall window at the rear, which has a mullion and transom, with sexfoiled ogees in the square head, and retains the remains of a crown post roof.

Local climate

Friary Court Friary Court and Old Friary Old Friary 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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