Clapper 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.
Clapper Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-thatch-sepia
- 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
- Clapper Farmhouse, Clapper Lane, Staplehurst, TN12 0JT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 781 453
- Coordinates
- 51.17974, 0.5468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clapper Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier and was built in at least two stages. It features a timber frame, with the right section rendered and the left section weatherboarded. The roof is covered in plain tiles and consists of two storeys and an attic. The left section has a gable end jetty, while the roof of the short left section is hipped to the left and has a much lower ridge than the right section. The right section has a steeply pitched roof that is gabled to the left and hipped with a gablet to the right. There is a multiple brick stack on the front slope of the roof towards the left end of the right section, and a small gabled dormer is present on the right section. The fenestration is irregular, featuring five small wooden casements: one three-light in the left section, one two-light under the stack, one four-light, and two three-light windows. A half-glazed door is located between the second and third windows from the right. Additionally, there is a low single-storey weatherboarded addition with a plain-tile roof at the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Clapper Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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