The Olde House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. A C16 House.
The Olde House
- WRENN ID
- cold-bronze-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Olde House, Oad Street, Borden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 870 621
- Coordinates
- 51.32759, 0.68349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Olde House is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a restored timber frame that is exposed, with plaster infill and a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a brick plinth and has a close-studded design with a continuous jetty. The roof is hipped and includes three hipped dormers, along with a stack located to the centre-right. On the first floor, there are four wood mullioned windows, while the ground floor has one wood casement window to the left and one segmental bay window to the right. The entrance is marked by a glazed door situated in a central gabled porch that has a carved bargeboard.
Local climate
The Olde House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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