Claypits Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Claypits Farm
- WRENN ID
- ancient-wattle-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Claypits Farm, Cave Lane, Goodnestone, CT3 1PB
- OS grid reference
- TR 259 552
- Coordinates
- 51.25135, 1.23655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claypits Farm is a house dating to approximately 1840, built in a style associated with the Goodnestone Estate. It is constructed of brown brick with a slate roof. The house has two storeys, set on a plinth, and features a brick eaves cornice, kneelered gables, and brick stack clusters to the left and right sides, and at the rear. The front facade has two three-light Dering windows on each floor, and a central two-storey porch with a kneelered gable, a three-light Dering window on the first floor, and a rib and stud door within a round-arched doorway. A rear wing also has a kneelered gable and two three-light Dering windows on each floor.
Local climate
Claypits Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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