Great Wadd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Great Wadd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-chapel-sage
- 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
- Great Wadd Farmhouse, Cranbrook Road, Staplehurst, TN17 2DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 407
- Coordinates
- 51.13757, 0.5677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Wadd Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later alterations from the 18th century. It is timber framed with rendered infilling, and the left gable end features painted brick on the ground floor, with weatherboarding above. The roof is covered in plain tiles and the building stands two storeys high.
There is a painted brick plinth under a raised cill on the left side. The farmhouse has a continuous jetty supported by a roll-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets, with one bracket located to the right of the doors. The structure is close-studded, with principal posts situated on the first floor towards the left end and two adjacent to each other to the left of the stack. There is also a principal post on the ground floor to the right of the stack.
The roof is gabled, with the right gable jettied on solid-spandrel brackets. A brick ridge stack is located towards the centre, along with a projecting 18th-century red and grey brick stack featuring tumbled shoulders and a filleted flue on the right gable end.
The fenestration is irregular, consisting of four casements: one 2-light window on the left, one 3-light window over a broad wooden cill to the left of the stack, and one 2-light and one 3-light window to the right of the stack. There are also blocked 3-light and 2-light mullion windows towards each end on the ground floor, and a ribbed door located under the stack. A rear lean-to is present. The interior has not been inspected. The farmhouse was formerly known as Wadd Farm.
Local climate
Great Wadd Farmhouse 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 81% 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 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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