Pile Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Pile Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-merlon-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pile Gate Farmhouse, Hartfield Road, Cowden, TN8 7HE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 467 418
- Coordinates
- 51.15696, 0.09698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pile Gate Farmhouse is an 18th-century house, likely incorporating older fabric. It is two storeys high with three windows. The roof is hipped and tiled, with a central chimney stack. The eaves have a visible soffit. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is rendered. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set in exposed moulded frames. A projecting porch was added in the early 19th century; it has a hipped slate roof and fluted columns. Rear extensions were added in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Pile Gate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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