Lower Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Farm House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-slate-crimson
- 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
- Lower Farm House, Babylon Lane, Sutton Valence, ME17 3ER
- OS grid reference
- TQ 801 468
- Coordinates
- 51.19253, 0.57739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farm House is probably a 17th-century farmhouse, with a facade dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber-framed. The front elevation is weatherboarded, while the gable ends are stone on a ground floor of stone, with tile hanging above. The roof is tiled, with a half-hipped design and a central brick ridge stack. The windows are irregularly placed, featuring two 2-light casements. A central ribbed door is set within a painted brick porch. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Farm House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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