Farthingales is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House. 7 related planning applications.
Farthingales
- WRENN ID
- open-mullion-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Farthingales, Old Court Hill, Nonington, CT15 4LQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 252 523
- Coordinates
- 51.22604, 1.2245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farthingales is a house that was once used as a shop, dating back to the 15th century and extended in the mid-19th century. The main house features a timber frame with exposed close studding and plaster infill, along with large panel framing on the return elevation. It has a plain tiled roof. The shop wing is also timber framed, weather boarded, and has a plain tiled roof. The building is one storey with an attic, set on a rendered plinth, and includes a mid-rail or bressumer. The hipped roof has stacks at the end left and clustered at the centre right, along with one gabled dormer.
On the ground floor, there is a four-light mullioned window, a four-light oriel window, and a two-light wooden casement, with boarded doors to the left and centre right. A mullioned window is located on the right return. The shop extension has two storeys and a hipped roof with a rear stack. It features two sash windows on the first floor, a multi-paned shop window with central double doors, and a boarded door to the left.
Local climate
Farthingales 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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