Close Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Farmhouse.
Close Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-crypt-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Close Farmhouse, Westerham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 449 506
- Coordinates
- 51.23689, 0.07543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Farmhouse is a late 16th century or 17th century timber-framed house. It has two storeys and features three windows, with the left bay situated under a gable. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof that is hipped on the right side. There is a compound ridge stack with a cornice in several planes. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of random rubble with red brick dressings, and some timber framing is visible. The windows have been replaced with modern casements, and there is a plank door located under a tiled pent porch.
Local climate
Close Farmhouse 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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