Hawkes and Beetles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.

Hawkes and Beetles Farmhouse

WRENN ID
north-storey-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Hawkes and Beetles Farmhouse, Luddenham
OS grid reference
TQ 986 628
Coordinates
51.33027, 0.85027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hawkes and Beetles Farmhouse is a 16th-century house featuring a timber frame with exposed close studding and plaster infill. The roof is plain tiled and the building has an irregular plan with an entrance located in a recessed side wing. It stands two storeys high on a flint plinth and has a continuous jetty supported by dragon posts. The roof is hipped, with a stack positioned at the rear right. On the first floor, there are four wooden casements, while the ground floor has two casements and a large central 20th-century bay window supported by brackets. The entry is through a boarded door set in a four-centred arched doorway located in the recessed wing to the right.

Local climate

Hawkes and Beetles Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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