New Shelve Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House.

New Shelve Farmhouse

WRENN ID
peeling-kitchen-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
House
Address
New Shelve Farmhouse, Forstal Road, Lenham
OS grid reference
TQ 918 515
Coordinates
51.23085, 0.74585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Shelve Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with early 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of chequered red and grey brick and features a plain tile roof. The building is double depth, with two storeys, attics, and a semi-basement set on a stone plinth. It has a plat band and a deep coved eaves cornice, along with a hipped roof that has hips returning along the side elevations. There are two multiple brick ridge stacks, one at the centre of each side elevation, and two hipped dormers.

The fenestration is irregular, featuring two large early 19th-century tripartite sashes and a smaller blocked central window. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, while the right side elevation includes three glazing-bar sashes, each different from one another. The rear elevation retains a few original wood mullioned and transomed windows. The entrance features a ribbed door beneath a segmental-headed window, with rubbed brick voussoirs, in a flat-roofed 19th-century red brick porch that has a moulded wood cornice and is accessed by seven steps.

Inside, there is a late 17th-century well staircase that leads from the ground floor to the attic, featuring a moulded handrail, twisted balusters, and knobs and balls on the newel posts, with a closed string. The left-hand ground-floor room has slightly recessed panelling with raised borders, pilaster-type panels with capitals on either side of the fireplace overmantle, and a moulded cornice. The attic stairwell has sunk panelling, and there is a contemporary fireback present.

Local climate

New Shelve 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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