Home Farm Cottages Home Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Home Farm Cottages Home Farm House
- WRENN ID
- stony-bonework-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Home Farm Cottages Home Farm House, Lenham Heath Road, ME17 2HX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 889 509
- Coordinates
- 51.22626, 0.70505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farm House and Nos. 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages are a house and associated cottages, dating to the 15th century for the cottages and the early to mid-19th century for the farmhouse. The building is timber framed. Nos. 1 and 2 are clad in fishscale tiles, while the farmhouse has weatherboarding with tile-hanging to the gable ends. The roofs are covered in plain tiles. The buildings were probably originally a hall house before the farmhouse was built, replacing the left-hand bay.
The buildings stand two storeys high on a stone plinth. The farmhouse is significantly taller and has a half-hipped roof to its left end and a hipped roof with a gablet to the right end of No. 2. There are four stacks: a rear stack to the left of the farmhouse, a red brick stack projecting from the right gable end at the junction with No. 1, a multiple brick ridge stack off-centre to the right of Nos. 1 and 2, and a projecting brick stack with a stone base to the right end of No. 2. The fenestration is irregular, with two glazing-bar sash windows to the farmhouse and three two-light casements to Nos. 1 and 2. The farmhouse has a central panelled door with two top lights under a trellised porch, while Nos. 1 and 2 have boarded doors, one with a rectangular light towards the left end and the other slightly to the right of the stack, both with simple flat hoods.
A parallel rear range extends from the farmhouse and is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with occasional grey headers, and incorporates weatherboarding to the gable. This range is two storeys high and has a half-hipped roof. The interiors were not inspected.
Local climate
Home Farm Cottages Home Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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