Garden House, West Farleigh Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. A C18 Stables and coach house.
Garden House, West Farleigh Hall
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gutter-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Stables and coach house
- Address
- Garden House, West Farleigh Hall, Lower Road, ME15 0PE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 713 525
- Coordinates
- 51.24661, 0.45366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House at West Farleigh Hall is a late 18th-century building that originally served as stables and a coach house, and is now a house. It is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof. The central section, likely the coach house, is two stories tall and is oriented gable-end towards the courtyard, flanked by single-storey lean-to sections that were probably used as stables.
The building has a chamfered brick plinth and a plat band. The front gable ends of the lean-tos are built up as blind two-storey brick facades with plain parapets. The central section slightly projects forward and has a pedimented gable, with the base plat band continuing the line of the flanking parapet coping. There are brick stacks located towards the front and rear on the left side of the central section.
A hexagonal wooden bell cupola with a modillioned cornice, leaded onion dome, and weathervane is situated at the front of the central section. The front facade has five windows, including two blind windows with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs in each flanking section, and a central Diocletian window. The central light of this window forms the top of a half-glazed door that drops through the plat band to the lintel of the panelled ground-floor garage doors.
The flanking sections feature doubly-recessed arcading at the ground floor with rubbed brick voussoirs and a plat band at the impost level. Each of the four arches contains a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The two inner arches have twelve-pane sash windows with horns. The left end arch has a boarded door leading to Garden House, while the right end has a boarded door with a four-light rectangular top light beneath the fanlight. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Garden House, West Farleigh Hall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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