Jessops Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Farmhouse.

Jessops Farmhouse

WRENN ID
turning-hammer-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1975
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Jessops Farmhouse, Chiddingstone
OS grid reference
TQ 508 468
Coordinates
51.20069, 0.15764
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jessops Farmhouse is a restored timber-framed building that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. The garden front features two storeys with three windows and has a high-pitched tiled roof. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is made of red brick, which includes some blue headers, and has a diagonal brick band at the first floor level. The windows are modern casements. There is a modern pent roof extension on the right side and other extensions on the entrance front. Inside, there is much massive exposed timber.

Local climate

Jessops Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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