Rabbit Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Rabbit Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-loggia-thistle
- 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
- Rabbit Farmhouse, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0HQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 771 411
- Coordinates
- 51.14186, 0.53143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rabbit Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse located on Goudhurst Road in Staplehurst. The building features a timber frame with a brick ground floor and a first floor finished with banded plain and fishscale tiles, topped by a plain tile roof. It has two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay, standing two storeys high with a garret. The roof is half-hipped with gablets, and there is a brick ridge stack positioned towards the centre. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of three two-light casements. A boarded door is set in a lean-to brick porch located under the stack. The south side of the stack is marked with a dated brick, indicating "J M 1720."
Inside, the farmhouse retains exposed framing, including a significant amount of reused timber from the 16th century or earlier. There is a brick fireplace featuring a chamfered bressumer and a staggered butt purlin roof. The building was formerly known as Rabbit Farm.
Local climate
Rabbit Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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