Chains Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chains Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-merlon-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chains Farmhouse, Ide Hill Road, Sundridge with Ide Hill, TN14 6JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 489 509
- Coordinates
- 51.23821, 0.13214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chains Farmhouse is a 16th-century building with 18th-century additions, located off Ide Hill Road. The garden front features two storeys and four windows, topped by a high-pitched roof that is half-hipped at the ends and has been renewed with machine tiles. There is an off-centre ridge stack that has been partly rebuilt. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is constructed of galleted random rubble with brick dressings and a brick-coped plinth. The entrance door consists of five panels and is situated under a gabled, bracketed hood. Various casement windows are present, and some visible timber framing can be seen below the right hip of the roof. The entrance front, which was formerly the back, retains part of the original low-sweeping roof to the left of the 18th-century extension, built with similar materials except for the end piece, which is made of red brick with blue headers. The first-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars set in flush, moulded frames.
Local climate
Chains 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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