Rhode Fruit Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. Farmhouse.
Rhode Fruit Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-step-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rhode Fruit Farmhouse, Seed Road, Otterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 932 549
- Coordinates
- 51.26076, 0.76774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rhode Fruit Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century or earlier, with a front added in the early 18th century. It is timber framed and covered in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with some grey bricks included. The building has two storeys set on a flint plinth and features a plat band. It has projecting eaves with a flat soffit and a hipped roof. There is a brick ridge stack that is slightly off-centre to the right and another brick stack at the left end. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of four 19th-century two-light casements. The boarded door is located beneath the stack and is sheltered by a flat hood supported by exaggeratedly carved brackets. A datestone on the central stack is illegible from the road. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rhode Fruit 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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