Rock Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Rock Farm House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-stone-thyme
- 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
- Rock Farm House, Gibbs Hill, Nettlestead, ME18 5HT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 681 526
- Coordinates
- 51.24789, 0.40835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Farm House is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a facade added in the 19th century. The front elevation features red and grey brick in Flemish bond. The left gable end has widely spaced timber framing with red and grey brick infilling on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile-hung. The first floor of the rear elevation is rendered. The building has a plain tile roof and consists of two storeys, a garret, and a basement. There is a stone plinth on the left gable end and a brick plinth at the front. The roof is half-hipped, and there is a multiple red and grey brick chimney stack towards the right end. The windows are irregularly arranged, with five casements in total: two three-light and one two-light to the left of the stack, one single-light beneath the stack, and one three-light to the right. The ground-floor casements have segmental heads. The entrance features a door with four flush panels and two top lights, set in a gabled red brick porch with bargeboards, and is located under the stack. To the right, there is a two-storey rear addition, and to the left of the stack, there is a two-storey rendered rear wing or stair turret with a half-hipped roof. A rear lean-to is located to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rock Farm House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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