Homestall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Farmhouse.

Homestall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
mired-hearth-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Homestall Farmhouse, Love Lane, Headcorn
OS grid reference
TQ 849 441
Coordinates
51.16693, 0.64421
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Homestall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with an early 16th-century wing and a facade from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is timber framed, featuring a ground floor made of chequered red and grey brick and a first floor that is weatherboarded. The first floor of the wing is tile-hung, and the roof is covered with plain tiles.

The farmhouse is an open hall house, with the right end bay and the right bay of the hall still intact. There is a rear wing to the right, consisting of three timber-framed bays, including a bay for the rear stack. The structure has two storeys, and the right end bay was formerly jettied at the front and to the right. It features a modillioned wooden eaves cornice and a hipped roof, with a central brick ridge stack and a rear stack for the wing.

The front of the farmhouse has a regular two-window arrangement with tripartite sashes. The central door consists of six fielded panels and is topped with a flat corniced hood. Inside, the farmhouse showcases exposed framing, a moulded and brattished end-of-hall beam, and a four-centred arched doorhead. The rear wall of the front range has close studding, while the rear wing features rebated principal posts and mortices for diamond mullioned windows.

Local climate

Homestall 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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