Bobbins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bobbins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-sandstone-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bobbins Farmhouse, Elham, CT4 6AH
- OS grid reference
- TR 151 459
- Coordinates
- 51.17269, 1.07594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bobbins Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a public house, likely built in the 18th century. It features red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern and has a plain tile roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a single-course plat band to the left of the door. To the right, there is a slightly lower chamfered brick offset, above which the first floor has two "chainâge" strips that shadow the ground-floor window. The roof is gabled on the left side and hipped on the right. There is a brick gable-end stack on the left and a ridge stack to the right of centre.
The farmhouse includes two small two-light eaves dormers with hipped plain tile roofs. The ground-floor windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of three small casements: one single-light window at the left end, one four-light window towards the centre, and one three-light window with a segmental head at the right end. There is a boarded door located under the stack.
To the right, there is a red brick lean-to addition that is slightly overlapped by the extension of the eaves of the main range, with the hip continuing as a lean-to roof. On the left side, there is a single-storey brick addition with a hipped plain tile roof, featuring two-light casements in each lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bobbins Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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