Front Block to Farningham Social Club and Institute (Croft House) is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1972. Social club. 2 related planning applications.
Front Block to Farningham Social Club and Institute (Croft House)
- WRENN ID
- silent-cupola-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1972
- Type
- Social club
- Address
- Front Block to Farningham Social Club and Institute (Croft House), High Street, DA4 0DE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 548 667
- Coordinates
- 51.37905, 0.22367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front block of the Farningham Social Club and Institute, known as Croft House, is an 18th-century building with a later 19th-century extension. The original house, located to the southeast, is two storeys high and features weatherboarding on its façade. It has a hipped tiled roof with an eaves cornice and includes two sash windows with intact glazing bars. The northwest wing, added in the 19th century, is also two storeys tall and has a basement and attics, faced with pebbledash. This section has a tiled roof with two dormers and two sash windows, also with intact glazing bars. There is a later weather porch and three steps leading to the street, accompanied by an iron handrail.
Local climate
Front Block to Farningham Social Club and Institute (Croft House) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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