Orchard Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Orchard Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-brass-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard Farmhouse, Rodmersham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 927 608
- Coordinates
- 51.3137, 0.7648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber frame and rendered pebble dash, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high, with an end jetty on the left side. It has a hipped roof and chimney stacks on both the left and right. The first floor includes three metal casements, while the ground floor has two wooden casements and a boarded door to the right, which is set within a red brick porch.
Local climate
Orchard 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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