Temple Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.

Temple Farmhouse

WRENN ID
third-ember-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Temple Farmhouse, Singledge Lane, Whitfield, CT15 5AB
OS grid reference
TR 288 454
Coordinates
51.16248, 1.27138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Temple Farmhouse is a house dating from the 18th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of painted flint and brick, topped with a plain tiled roof, and features two storeys and an attic. The window dressings and quoins were originally highlighted in red brick, but these have now been painted over. The house has stacks that project at both the left and right ends, along with two hipped dormers.

The front has a regular arrangement of windows, including two sashes and a central glazing bar sash on the first floor, and two segmentally headed sashes on the ground floor. The central entrance features a half-glazed door, which was originally made up of six raised and fielded panels, set within a moulded and panelled surround. This is topped by a rectangular fanlight and framed by a pilaster doorcase and cornice, all of which are enclosed within a mid-20th century rendered concrete porch with a flat roof.

To the right, there is a two-storey wing with a hipped roof that contains one wooden casement on each floor, along with a stack. There is also a one-storey projecting wing with one wooden casement, a boarded door, a stack, and a loft door in the end gable. The name of the house is derived from the site of a preceptory of the Knights Templar located in the adjacent field.

Local climate

Temple Farmhouse 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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