Snoad Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. A Late C16 and early C17 Farmhouse.
Snoad Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-hinge-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Snoad Farmhouse, Snoad Farm Road, Otterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 947 550
- Coordinates
- 51.26108, 0.7894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snoad Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and early 17th century. It is primarily timber-framed, now mostly covered in painted brick laid in Flemish bond, with a section of tile-hanging beneath the central first-floor window. The roof is made of plain tiles and features two storeys on a brick plinth, with remnants of broadly-spaced close-studding visible on the first floor. The front elevation has a continuous jetty that originally extended along the left end but is now entirely underbuilt. The roof is hipped, and there is a multiple brick ridge stack located off-centre to the left.
The building has an irregular arrangement of six windows, including three 19th-century casements—one in each inland position and one central—along with a single light beneath the stack and two small two-light mullion windows flanking the centre, all retaining their original cills. The latter two windows likely served as frieze windows for a central oriel window, for which mortices are still visible. A boarded door is positioned towards the right end of the facade. At the rear, there is a close-studded early 17th-century stair turret behind the stack, along with a lean-to structure from the 18th or 19th century.
Inside, the farmhouse features plain original doorheads, exposed timbers, and geometric wall-painting in red and yellow ochre on plaster above the fireplace in the left end ground floor room, which is likely contemporary to the building. The interior has only been partially inspected.
Local climate
Snoad 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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