Henikers is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.

Henikers

WRENN ID
plain-window-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Henikers, Heniker Lane, Sutton Valence, ME17 3EE
OS grid reference
TQ 815 482
Coordinates
51.20426, 0.59749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse dating from the late 14th or early 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th century and the mid-19th century. It is timber framed. The front elevation is clad in banded plain and fishscale tiles on both floors, except for the ground floor of the right-hand bay, which is red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a plain tile roof. The farmhouse originally comprised two open hall bays with a storeyed bay to the right end. The left-hand bay was rebuilt in the 19th century, and an oast-house has been added to the left. The building is two storeys high with a garret, built on a rendered plinth. The roof is hipped with a gablet to the left, and half-hipped with a gablet to the right. A multiple brick stack with a fillet sits in front of the roof, offset to the right. The windows are irregularly placed, including two three-light and one two-light 19th-century casements. There is also a three-light mullion window with diamond subsidiary mullions, positioned beneath the stack. Two adjacent panelled doors, each with two top lights and a flat bracketed hood, are located beneath the stack. A 20th-century ribbed door with a flat hood is at the left end of the building. The oast-house is in two sections; one is weatherboarded, the other is tile-hung, and both are hipped to the front. The interior features exposed timber framing. There is a moulded first-floor end-of-hall beam and evidence of a cornice. A moulded central crown-post and pilaster crown-post are also present, along with sous-laces. A part of a newel staircase is located behind the stack.

Local climate

Henikers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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