Reed Place Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Reed Place Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-garret-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Reed Place Farmhouse, Dairy Lane, Marden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 727 479
- Coordinates
- 51.20462, 0.47086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reed Place Farmhouse is a late 17th century or early 18th century farmhouse that has been converted into a pair of houses. The ground floor features red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is tile-hung. The right gable end displays exposed timber framing with brick infilling and lacing pieces at the ground floor, along with weatherboarding on the first floor. The building has a plain tile roof and a lobby entry plan consisting of three timber-framed bays. It stands two storeys high with a garret on a brick plinth and has a half-hipped roof. A multiple red and grey brick ridge stack is located at the left end of the central bay. The fenestration is irregular, comprising three casements: two three-light and one central two-light. There is a plain door with a rectangular light situated beneath the stack, and a rear lean-to is also present.
Inside, the farmhouse features exposed timber framing, a chamfered axial beam, bevelled joists, and a plain brick fireplace with a niche and wooden bressumer in the right ground-floor room. A similar but smaller fireplace is found in the left room. The rear wall of the first-floor room includes a curved tension brace with plastered straw daub infilling. The stairs are located behind the stack, and the principal posts have relatively small gunstock jowls. The roof structure consists of staggered butt purlins.
Local climate
Reed Place Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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