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
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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