Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-belfry-poplar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse, Lower Farm Road, Boughton Monchelsea
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 473
- Coordinates
- 51.19775, 0.55366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century. It is timber framed with plaster infilling and has a plain tile roof. The building features a Wealden design with two hall bays of roughly equal length and storeyed end bays. It has two storeys and an attic, with a stone plinth on the right end bay and a brick plinth on the rest of the structure. The close-studded timber framing is notable, along with a broad, low window cill on the left hall bay. Both the right and left end bays project forward, or jetty, from the front. Inside, there are arch braces supporting the flying wall-plate and a solid-spandrel bracket at the central tie-beam end. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped.
On the front slope of the roof, there is a multiple filleted red and grey brick stack located to the left end of the right hall bay, as well as a slender brick stack within the right lean-to. The 17th-century features include a 2.5-storey close-studded rectangular bay window on a chamfered painted stone base on the left hall bay, which rises through the eaves. This bay window has a jettied gable supported by shaped brackets, a moulded bressumer, moulded bargeboards, and a pendant. It contains a leaded 3-light mullioned window. The fenestration is irregular, with two windows: one is an 8-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor with a moulded head and cill, located in the 17th-century bay, flanked by two 2-light mullioned frieze windows on the hall walls. There is also a 2-light paned casement in the right end bay, a blocked window in the left end bay, and another blocked window in the right hall bay. Additionally, there is a small 4-light mullioned window on the ground floor of the left end bay and a 2-light paned casement in the right end bay. The ground-floor window of the 17th-century bay mirrors the first-floor design, along with the two-light frieze windows.
A boarded door with a moulded 4-centred arched architrave, featuring hollow spandrels and brattished moulding over the midrail, is located at the right end of the right hall bay. There is a brick lean-to on the right with applied studding to the gable and a short rear lean-to on the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rabbit's Cross 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 79% 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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