Old Bakehouse and Cartshed is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Bakehouse, cartshed.

Old Bakehouse and Cartshed

WRENN ID
stranded-mortar-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1982
Type
Bakehouse, cartshed
Address
Old Bakehouse and Cartshed, High Street, Farningham
OS grid reference
TQ 547 669
Coordinates
51.38034, 0.22235
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bakehouse and Cart Shed in Farningham is an early 19th-century structure. It is a single-storey building made of stock brick with a slate roof. The front facing the High Street features part of an 18th-century wall constructed from red brick and flint. The gable is weatherboarded, and there is a large chimney for the old bake oven. The building is connected to an 18th-century open cart shed that has a tiled roof supported by square wooden pillars.

Local climate

Old Bakehouse and Cartshed 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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