Little Barleythorpe is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.
Little Barleythorpe
- WRENN ID
- former-landing-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Barleythorpe, Boughton Road, Lenham, ME17 2HU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 890 513
- Coordinates
- 51.23008, 0.70593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Barleythorpe is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a very shallow plat band, with slightly projecting gable end stacks. The front has a regular arrangement of windows, consisting of two glazing-bar sashes and a blind central window. The ground floor windows are adorned with rubbed brick voussoirs. The central door is made up of six fielded panels and is topped with a semi-circular fanlight that has radiating glazing bars, also featuring rubbed brick voussoirs. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Little Barleythorpe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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