Ridding House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. Farmhouse.
Ridding House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-slate-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ridding House, Headcorn Road, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 882 507
- Coordinates
- 51.22486, 0.69456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridding House is a farmhouse that dates back to the 15th century and later. It features a timber frame that is clad in a chequered pattern of red and grey brick, with the red brick more prominent on the first floor. The left end bay of the ground floor is constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond. The building has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high on a stone plinth. It has a hipped roof with gablets and an off-centre brick ridge stack located to the right. The windows are irregularly arranged and consist of three 2-light casements. There is a half-glazed door situated beneath the stack, along with a 20th-century glazed door in a 19th-century lean-to on the left end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ridding 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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