Claxfield Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Claxfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-pedestal-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Claxfield Farmhouse, Claxfield Road, Lynsted with Kingsdown, ME9 9PX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 944 625
- Coordinates
- 51.32892, 0.78951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claxfield Farmhouse is a Wealden hall house, dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed, with exposed, close-studded timbering and plaster infill, and has a plain tiled roof. The original house comprised four framed bays, with a later framed wing added to the rear right side. The house has two storeys, with jettied end bays and a flying wall plate over the two central bays supported by arched braces. The hall bay on the right has arched bracing, while the left hall bay has a mid-rail on the ground floor. A central projecting semi-dormer features pendant bargeboards. The roof is hipped with gablets and stacks positioned to the left and offset, projecting at the end on the left side. The first floor has three metal casements. There are glazing bar sashes in a segmental bay window to the left and in the central projecting gable, and a wooden casement to the right. Evidence of blocked mullioned windows remains on both floors. A door consisting of six raised and fielded panels is located on the right side. The interior retains a crown post roof.
Local climate
Claxfield 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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