Crabbe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. A Early Modern Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Crabbe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hammer-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Crabbe Farmhouse, Lenham, ME17 2JJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 915 499
- Coordinates
- 51.21667, 0.74137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crabbe Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century and later. It has a timber-framed core, with the ground floor constructed of stone and the first floor made of red brick in Flemish bond. The right gable end is tile-hung, while the left gable end features red brick on the ground floor and is tile-hung above. There is a lean-to that is clad in stone and red brick, and the roof is covered with plain tiles. The building consists of four bays and has an integral timber-framed rear lean-to, likely designed with a lobby entry. It stands two storeys high on a galleted stone plinth and has plain two-storey buttresses with brick plinths at both ends of the front elevation and at the front end of the side elevations. The roof is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right, with a brick ridge stack that was rebuilt in the mid-20th century and is slightly off-centre to the right. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four 19th-century windows: one sash window, two glazing-bar sashes, and one small casement. There are also 20th-century French doors to the left of centre and a blocked central door. Inside, the farmhouse has exposed timbers.
Local climate
Crabbe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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