Hen and Duckhurst is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse.
Hen and Duckhurst
- WRENN ID
- buried-forge-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hen and Duckhurst, Marden Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 780 438
- Coordinates
- 51.16593, 0.54537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hen and Duckhurst is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a facade added in the 19th century. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor rendered and the first floor covered in banded plain and fishscale tiles. The right gable end is weatherboarded on the ground floor and tile-hung above. It has a plain tile roof, is two storeys high with a garret, and features a half-hipped roof. There is a multiple brick ridge stack located towards the centre of the roof. The windows are arranged irregularly and consist of two 3-light casements. A boarded door is situated behind an open rustic porch under the stack, and there is a rear lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Hen and Duckhurst 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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