Forstal Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1980. House.
Forstal Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-gravel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forstal Farmhouse, the Forstal, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TR 248 606
- Coordinates
- 51.30069, 1.22458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forstal Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed and has tile hanging, with the left side clad in red brick. The roof is plain tiled and features a Wealden plan. The building has two storeys, with jetties on both the left and right sides, and a recessed bay to the centre right. The roof is hipped and has a rebuilt stack on the centre left. The fenestration is irregular, with three wooden casements on the first floor and two on the ground floor. There is a boarded door to the left and a glazed door to the right.
Local climate
Forstal Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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