The Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1981. Bakery. 1 related planning application.

The Bakery

WRENN ID
weathered-keystone-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1981
Type
Bakery
Address
The Bakery, High Street, Farningham, DA4 0DH
OS grid reference
TQ 547 669
Coordinates
51.38024, 0.22253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bakery is a 18th century building located on the north-east side of Farningham High Street. It consists of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded. The building features a tiled roof and has three sashes with intact glazing bars on the first floor only. There is a built-out bay on the left-hand side of the ground floor, and the entrance has a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets.

Local climate

The Bakery 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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