The Old Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Farm
- WRENN ID
- heavy-frieze-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farm, Cow Lane, Hever, TN8 5NX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 475 426
- Coordinates
- 51.16417, 0.1093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farm is a small timber-framed house dating from the 17th century or earlier, located on Cow Lane in Markbeech, Cowden. The garden front features two storeys and two windows, with a right extension that is also two storeys but has only one window. It has a high-pitched tiled roof that sweeps low on the road front. The first floor is weatherboarded, while the ground floor is made of painted brick. The windows are leaded iron casements, and there is a plank door. To the left, there is a one-storey extension that is covered by the continued roof. Inside, the house includes an inglenook and heavy chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Old Farm receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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