Black Swan Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1962. House. 5 related planning applications.
Black Swan Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-spandrel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Black Swan Farmhouse, Crook's Court Lane, Hougham Without, CT15 7BN
- OS grid reference
- TR 265 400
- Coordinates
- 51.11471, 1.23529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Swan Farmhouse is an early 18th-century house constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth and features a plat band and a hipped roof with a central chimney stack. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, with five sash windows on the first floor and four ground floor windows that have segmental heads, all fitted with vertical glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a central panelled door. At the rear, there is a large wing that includes an end stack and catslides.
Local climate
Black Swan Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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