Becket's House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1985. A C18 Farmhouse.

Becket's House

WRENN ID
tattered-lintel-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Becket's House, Snargate
OS grid reference
TQ 958 261
Coordinates
51.00159, 0.79012
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Becket's House is a farmhouse built in the mid-18th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features brown brick in irregular patches of Flemish bond, while the left gable end is stuccoed. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a lobby entry plan consisting of two bays and a stack bay, with an early to mid-19th century bay added to the right. The building has two storeys and an attic on a plinth, with a plat band and boxed eaves, and a hipped roof. There is a rear stack located towards the left end, which is central to the 18th-century house. A hipped dormer is situated in the left hip of the roof. The fenestration is irregular, featuring seven windows; four of these are 20th-century leaded glazing bar sashes (one to the left and three to the right of the porch), along with three small fixed lights above the porch. The entrance has a 20th-century ribbed door within a 20th-century brick porch beneath the stack. At the rear, there is a lean-to with a stack towards the right end. Inside, exposed timbers and a large fireplace can be found, although only the ground floor was inspected.

Local climate

Becket's House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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