Dairy Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 2000. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Dairy Farm House
- WRENN ID
- slow-corridor-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dairy Farm House, Church Street, Higham, ME3 7LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 715 729
- Coordinates
- 51.42932, 0.46597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It has been refenestrated in its original openings, with a porch and a small extension added to the east in the late 19th century or early 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof with two end brick chimneystacks. It has a double-fronted plan, consisting of two storeys and attics, with five windows in the original part and one window in the single-storey addition.
The front elevation displays a moulded rubbed brick eaves course, with half-brick projecting full-height piers at either end. There are two tiled gabled dormers with rendered cheeks and 3 over 6 glazing bars with horns. The other floors feature 6 over 6 sash windows with horns, which have rubbed brick voussoirs and rendered and painted cills. The central entrance has a single panelled raised and fielded front door, flanked by a portico with square piers and a moulded cornice, rendered and painted. The east extension is a single-storey brick structure with a hipped tiled roof, featuring a 6 over 6 glazing bar sash with horns on the front and a double sash without glazing bars but with a horn on the east side. The rear extensions accommodate domestic services.
Inside, the ground floor rooms have window shutters, and there are three timber panelled rooms. Each room has a fireplace, with two ground floor fireplaces incorporating built-in cupboards. The interior also features early panelled doors, detailed joinery, and a narrow service staircase leading from the kitchen to the upper floor. A bell system with wires leading to the kitchen is still in place.
Local climate
Dairy Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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