Summerfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. House. 3 related planning applications.
Summerfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-belfry-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summerfield Farmhouse, Staple
- OS grid reference
- TR 277 560
- Coordinates
- 51.25769, 1.26249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summerfield Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and is underbuilt with red brick. The roof is plain tiled and the building has one storey and an attic, set on a flint base. There is an end jetty to the right and a hipped roof with gablets, along with two hipped dormers and a central cluster of stacks. The front has two wooden casements and a central six-panel door with a raking hood, above which is a four-light mullioned window. To the left, there is a single-storey extension that includes two wooden casements, two boarded doors, and an end stack.
Local climate
Summerfield 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- 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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