Forstal Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Forstal Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-wall-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Forstal Farmhouse, Newhouse Lane, Headcorn, TN27 9JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 827 437
- Coordinates
- 51.16412, 0.61307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forstal Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a facade added in the 19th century. It is timber framed, with the ground floor featuring rendered brick at the front and stone on the gable ends. The first floor is tile-hung, and the gable ends are weatherboarded. The roof is made of plain tiles and has a steep pitch, with a hipped design and a gablet on the right side, where the right hip returns. There is a brick stack located towards the center of the roof. The building has an irregular arrangement of four 3-light casement windows. A boarded door is set in a gabled painted brick porch beneath the stack. To the right, there is a rear wing with a stone ground floor and weatherboarding above, which includes a gable end stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Forstal 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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