Placketts Hole is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Placketts Hole
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pedestal-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Placketts Hole, Bicknor Lane, ME9 8BA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 864 593
- Coordinates
- 51.30242, 0.67374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with an addition from the early 19th century. The original 16th-century range is likely timber-framed. The ground floor on the right-hand side is flint, with tile-hanging on the first floor, while the left-hand side is red brick, all beneath a plain tile roof. An early 19th-century addition has a rendered front elevation with tile-hung gables and a slate roof. The 16th-century range sits at a right angle to the road, with the 19th-century wing added to the front, running parallel to the road and forming an L-shaped plan.
The 16th-century range is two storeys high, built on a plinth. It has a large brick stack in the front slope of the roof, slightly offset to the right. The windows are irregular, with one 3-light casement window with top lights to the left, a sash window to the right, and a half-glazed door at the right end. The 19th-century range is three storeys high and has a hipped roof at both ends. A large brick stack is centrally located. The front features a narrow, three-storey, projecting bay surmounted by a triangular pediment. The front elevation has a regular arrangement of five glazing bar sash windows. The doorway has pilasters, a frieze, a pediment, and a fanlight.
Local climate
Placketts Hole sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% 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 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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