Maplescombe is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. A C18 House. 6 related planning applications.
Maplescombe
- WRENN ID
- grey-chamber-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Maplescombe, Maplescombe Lane, Farningham, DA4 0JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 559 642
- Coordinates
- 51.35613, 0.23872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maplescombe is an 18th-century building located on Maplescombe Lane in Farningham. It is two storeys high and constructed of painted brick, topped with a hipped tiled roof. The facade features three sash windows with intact glazing bars. At the front, there is a porch supported by Tuscan columns, leading up three steps. The porch contains a doorcase with a rectangular fanlight and six fielded panels, with the top two panels cut away and glazed.
Local climate
Maplescombe 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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