Knowle Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Farmhouse.

Knowle Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twisted-dormer-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Knowle Hill Farmhouse, Ulcombe
OS grid reference
TQ 858 492
Coordinates
51.21231, 0.65999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knowle Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a facade from the early to mid-19th century. It is timber framed, with the ground floor clad in small blocks of evenly coursed stone and brick dressings, while the first floor features red brick in Flemish bond. The rear elevation has tile-hanging and exposed framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles and is hipped to the left. The building stands at right angles to the road and has two storeys on a stone plinth.

The roof has a slender brick stack at the left end and a broad multiple brick ridge stack with a corbelled top, which is off-centre to the right. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of four windows: three 16-pane glazing-bar sashes of varying sizes and one tripartite sash, all set in open boxes. The ground floor windows have segmental relieving arches. There is a boarded door towards the left end and a half-glazed door beneath the stack, which is accessed by seven steps; both doors have flat bracketed hoods. A brick lean-to is located to the left, while a stone lean-to on the right incorporates re-used durns. The right gable end features braces that curve beneath the rafters, suggesting a wagon roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Knowle Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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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