Upper Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. A C16 Farmhouse.

Upper Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lone-chalk-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Hill Farmhouse, Windmill Hill, Ulcombe
OS grid reference
TQ 856 497
Coordinates
51.21716, 0.65691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upper Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and weatherboarded, except for the left half of the ground floor, which has been rebuilt in painted brick. There is a narrow addition to the right end made of stone with brick dressings on the ground floor and red brick in Flemish bond on the first floor. The roof is covered in plain tiles and features two storeys and an attic on a brick plinth, with a hipped roof to the left. The right end has a large gablet above the hip of the lower roof of the stone addition, and the right hip returns. A multiple brick ridge stack is located towards the left end. The fenestration is irregular, with four leaded casements on the weatherboarded section. There is a panelled door beneath the stack, framed by fluted pilasters and topped with a broad flat bracketed hood. The right return wing has a stone ground floor with chequered red and grey brick, a plain tile roof, two storeys, a dentilled brick eaves cornice, a hipped roof, and three small casement windows. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Upper Hill 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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