Keepers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Keepers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-step-gold
- 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
- Keepers Farmhouse, Ham Lane, Lenham, ME17 2LT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 515
- Coordinates
- 51.23199, 0.6969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on the west side of Lenham Ham Lane. The building features a timber frame, with the ground floor constructed of 19th-century red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor showcases exposed timber framing with plaster infilling. The right end of the house is tile-hung, and it has a plain tile roof. The structure stands two storeys high on a plinth, with thin scantling and widely spaced studs that are supported by almost straight tension braces. The roof is hipped, and there is a multiple rear brick stack that is off-centre to the left. The front has an irregular arrangement of three small two-light casements, and there is a boarded door located off-centre to the left, beneath the stack. To the left, there is a lean-to, and a two-storey extension is present at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Keepers Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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