Old Court Farmhouse and Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Farmhouse.
Old Court Farmhouse and Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- carved-loggia-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Court Farmhouse and Forecourt, Aylesham
- OS grid reference
- TR 245 533
- Coordinates
- 51.23478, 1.215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Court Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 18th and early 19th centuries. It features a combination of red and blue brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high with a basement, showcasing a plinth and boxed eaves. There are stacks on the right and a projecting stack at the left end, all constructed in English bond and dating back to at least the 17th century. The facade includes two wooden casements on each floor and a central 20th-century panelled door. There are two basement openings on the right and one on the left, along with a single-storey extension to the right.
At the rear, there is a courtyard with an early 18th-century half-hipped single-storey range that contains a bread oven, complete with a lath and plaster firehood and an external door leading to a labourers' loft above. The front yard is enclosed by a red brick wall built on a flint base, dating from the 17th century. This wall is about 5 feet high and extends approximately 20 yards by 20 yards, featuring buttresses and ramping up to join the house. The farmhouse was the residence of the Marsh family of Acrise from around 1605 to 1665.
Local climate
Old Court Farmhouse and Forecourt receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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