Bell's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Bell's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
over-newel-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bell's Farmhouse, Heniker Lane, East Sutton, ME17 3EB
OS grid reference
TQ 827 475
Coordinates
51.19834, 0.61378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell’s Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with alterations from the early 19th century. It is timber framed and has a plain tile roof, likely a remnant of the original roof. The front elevation is weatherboarded on the right gable end and pebbledashed elsewhere. The building sits on a rendered plinth. The right gable end is jettied with shaped brackets, and the roof is hipped. A brick stack is positioned to the right of centre on the rear elevation. The fenestration is irregular, featuring leaded casements; a two-light window is on the left, and a small three-light window sits above the porch. A two-storey rectangular bay is located beneath the stack, with a ten-light, moulded mullioned and transomed window on each floor. The sides and the space between the floors of the bay are weatherboarded and the base is pebbledashed. A ribbed door is positioned to the left of centre, with moulded jambs and vase chamfer stops. There is an early 17th-century timber-framed porch, pebbledashed externally and close-studded internally. It has carved and moulded bargeboards with a finial. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bell's Farmhouse 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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