Cromwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Cromwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-gargoyle-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cromwell Farmhouse, Station Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 442
- Coordinates
- 51.16963, 0.55293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cromwell Farmhouse is a former public house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, featuring a main range that is weatherboarded and a wing that is rendered, both topped with tile-hung gables. It has a plain tile roof and is arranged in a T-plan, with the main range positioned at right angles to the road and the wing extending towards the center on the left. The structure is two stories tall with a garret and has a half-hipped roof on both the main range and the left gable end of the wing. There is a multiple brick ridge stack located at the junction of the main range and the wing. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of two casements: one small-paned casement in the wing and a two-light casement in the gable end of the main range. A lean-to is present at the front gable end, along with a weatherboarded lean-to in the angle between the main range and the wing, which returns around the gable end of the wing and features a stack and a door on the left end. Additionally, there is a single-storey weatherboarded addition with a half-hipped roof on the right, which also has a door.
The interior has only been partly inspected but includes exposed beams and a 17th-century fireplace in the front room of the main range.
Local climate
Cromwell 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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