The Stables of the Mill House, The Counting House and Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Stable, cottage.

The Stables of the Mill House, The Counting House and Gardeners Cottage

WRENN ID
grim-mantel-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1967
Type
Stable, cottage
Address
The Stables of the Mill House, The Counting House and Gardeners Cottage, High Street, Farningham
OS grid reference
TQ 545 670
Coordinates
51.38103, 0.21931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Stables of The Mill House, The Counting House, and Gardeners Cottage is an 18th-century range located on the south-west side of Farningham High Street. It features a tiled roof. At the south-west end is The Counting House, a two-storey cottage with three windows, constructed from flints with red brick window dressings, quoins, and a stringcourse. The cottage has casement windows, with the ground floor featuring two painted lights. In the center of the range are the former stables and coach-house, which are single-storey and faced with weatherboarding. They include a round-headed doorway and an ogee-headed loft door above it. At the north-east end is Gardeners Cottage, also two storeys and faced with weatherboarding. It has two sashes with intact glazing bars and a doorcase with a flat hood on brackets, leading to a door with six fielded panels.

Local climate

The Stables of the Mill House, The Counting House and Gardeners Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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