Thornton Farmhouse and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House.
Thornton Farmhouse and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gravel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thornton Farmhouse and Forecourt Wall, Tilmanstone
- OS grid reference
- TR 293 522
- Coordinates
- 51.22293, 1.28249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornton Farmhouse is a 17th-century house constructed of red brick in irregular bond on a flint base, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, along with a basement set on a plinth featuring a plat band. There are stacks projecting at both the left and right ends, and two gabled dormers. The first floor has three wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has two wooden casements and a small wooden casement to the left of the central kneelered gabled porch. The entrance features a plank and stud door with an early iron head knocker and ring handles, with a basement opening to the left. At the rear, there is a hipped wing. The forecourt wall is made of brown brick, approximately 3 feet high, with corner piers and a gate pier, enclosing an area that extends about 5 metres in front of the entrance elevation.
Local climate
Thornton Farmhouse and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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