Bletchenden is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Farmhouse. 12 related planning applications.
Bletchenden
- WRENN ID
- dark-arch-heath
- 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
- Bletchenden, Bletchenden Road, Headcorn, TN27 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 838 430
- Coordinates
- 51.15689, 0.62713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bletchenden is a farmhouse, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, with a 19th-century facade on the main range. It is timber-framed, with exposed studs and plaster infilling to the cross-wing. The ground floor of the main range is constructed of small blocks of coursed stone, while the first floor features banded plain and fishscale tiles. The cross-wing is flush with the main range on the ground floor but jettied on the first floor and close-studded. The wing has a hipped roof to the front, and the main range has a hipped roof to the left. A multiple filleted brick ridge stack is located at the left end of the main range. The windows are irregular, with three three-light casements to the main range, and no visible windows (or possibly blocked windows) to the wing. A boarded door is housed within a gabled stone porch situated beneath the stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bletchenden 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 — 8 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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