Abbey Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Abbey Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-flagstone-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Abbey Gate Farmhouse, Stockett Lane, Tovil
- OS grid reference
- TQ 752 536
- Coordinates
- 51.25511, 0.51021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Gate Farmhouse is a 15th to 16th century Wealden hall-house located on Stockett Lane. The building has two storeys and attics, with a hipped tiled roof and two small hipped dormers. The ground floor is mostly plastered, while the timber-framing with curved braces is exposed on the first floor. There are four casement windows, some featuring small square leaded panes, and the rear elevation displays three original wooden mullioned windows. Inside, the farmhouse includes a crown post roof and screen passages with two original openings leading to the pantry and buttery. A notable feature is the fine late 16th century wooden fireplace, which has shields in the spandrels and a massive stone chimneystack that rises through the house. The solar end features arches with Renaissance reeded pilasters.
Local climate
Abbey Gate Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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