Great Higham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Great Higham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chapel-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Higham Farmhouse, Down Court Road, Milstead, ME9 0AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28864, 0.7532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Higham Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century and was clad in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame set on a flint plinth, and is clad with red brick, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a hipped roof, with stacks located to the left and at the end on the right. There are four wooden casement windows on each floor, along with a central door that has six raised and fielded panels, which is topped by a flat hood.
Local climate
Great Higham Farmhouse 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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