Bessborough Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Bessborough Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-wall-barley
- 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
- Bessborough Farmhouse, Hernhill, ME13 9JG
- OS grid reference
- TR 066 614
- Coordinates
- 51.31499, 0.96463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bessborough Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. It comprises two parallel ranges. The main two-storey and basement section stands on a plinth, featuring kneelered parapet gables and stacks positioned at the end to the right and projecting to the end to the left. The windows are regularly spaced, boasting glazing bar sashes: five on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all with gauged heads. A central six-panelled door, now half-glazed, is accentuated by a decorative surround featuring Doric columns, a frieze, a cornice hood, and a flight of four steps. A basement opening is visible to the left. A single-storey extension, containing one window, is attached to the right.
Local climate
Bessborough Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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