Mount Pleasant is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. Farmhouse, house. 2 related planning applications.

Mount Pleasant

WRENN ID
gilded-slate-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1966
Type
Farmhouse, house
Address
Mount Pleasant, Canterbury Road, Lyminge, CT18 8JW
OS grid reference
TR 161 414
Coordinates
51.13121, 1.08771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mount Pleasant is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century, with some parts from the 18th century and late 18th or early 19th century additions. Originally timber-framed, the front elevation features red and grey brick on the 17th-century section, with red brick in Flemish bond to the left and later red and grey brick to the right. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a shallow pitch, hipped at both ends. The 17th-century section has a flint and stone plinth, and there are rear stacks on both sides.

The building is two storeys high with irregular fenestration consisting of five sash windows. This includes a sixteen-pane sash in the left addition and a smaller one towards the left end of the 17th-century section, both in open boxes. There is a recessed twelve-pane sash at the right end of the 17th-century section, another sixteen-pane sash in an open box, and a similar recessed sash at the right end. A flat-roofed canted brick bay is located under the left end window and another under the second window from the right. The entrance features a half-glazed door with sidelights and a cambered head, sheltered by a flat-roofed Doric porch beneath the second window from the left.

To the right, there is a rear brick wing that connects to a long single-storey weatherboarded outbuilding, along with a shorter rear wing situated between the right wing and the main range. The interior has only been partly inspected, revealing three 17th-century beams and chamfered joists in the entrance hall, with one beam featuring a jewelled or pyramidal stop.

Local climate

Mount Pleasant 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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