Mockbeggar Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Farmhouse.

Mockbeggar Farm House

WRENN ID
late-doorway-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Mockbeggar Farm House, Collier Street
OS grid reference
TQ 714 469
Coordinates
51.19562, 0.45254
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mockbeggar Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and an early to mid-19th century front range. The building is timber framed, featuring weatherboarding on the gable ends. The rear left wing has weatherboarding on the left side, with a brick ground floor and tile-hung upper section. The rear right wing is constructed of red and grey brick on the ground floor, also tile-hung above. The front range is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with fishscale tiles on the first floor of each gable end. The roofs are plain tiled.

The structure consists of two timber-framed bays, with the left bay being slightly longer and subdivided by intermediate posts. There is a short timber-framed rear return wing or turret on the left and a slightly shorter but broader timber-framed rear return wing on the right, with a rear lean-to situated between the two wings. The parallel front range extends slightly further to the right. Each range is two storeys high and gabled. The rear right wing has a stone plinth, and the wings are gabled to the rear. The rear left wing may feature an underbuilt first-floor gable-end jetty. Both ranges have slightly projecting brick gable-end stacks.

The front range has a regular three-window layout, with recessed four-pane sashes that have segmental heads. The ground floor features tripartite sashes, also with segmental heads. A central panelled door is topped by a leaded rectangular fanlight. Inside, the timber-framed section includes gunstock jowls of relatively heavy scantling at the left end, the central truss of the 17th-century range, and the gable end of the left wing. There is a reversed assembly at the front right corner, unless the right end bay is part of the right wing. Unjowled posts are present towards the centre of the left bay, along with chamfered cross and axial beams. The roof has not been inspected.

Local climate

Mockbeggar Farm House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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