Clarkes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Clarkes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-postern-kestrel
- 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
- Clarkes Farmhouse, Five Oak Lane, Staplehurst, TN12 0HX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 768 424
- Coordinates
- 51.15381, 0.52776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clarkes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a 19th-century facade and a later addition. The ground floor is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is tile-hung. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high with a garret. The roof is half-hipped, and there is a ridge stack located to the left of the centre. The building features irregular fenestration with two casements: one is a two-light and the other a three-light. There is a ribbed door situated under the stack, which is accessed through a gabled open porch supported by two posts. To the left, there is a two-storey rear wing that runs parallel to the main house and projects to the left. The ground floor of this wing is also red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is weatherboarded. It has a half-hipped plain tile roof and contains one three-light casement. A door is located to the right of this wing, adjacent to the main range. Additionally, there is a tile-hung rear lean-to on the right side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Clarkes 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 lower than that of 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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