Wren's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wren's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-transept-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wren's Farmhouse, Wren's Road, Borden, ME9 8JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 618
- Coordinates
- 51.32416, 0.70218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren’s Farmhouse is a 15th-century farmhouse that was re-clad in the 18th century. It is timber-framed and now faced with red brick, with a plain tiled roof. The house has four framed bays and stands on a plinth. It features a brick dentil cornice to the hipped roof, with a stack projecting from the left end and a central stack dating to the 17th century. The first floor has five wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has four casement windows with segmental heads. A central board door is set in a moulded surround with a flat hood.
Local climate
Wren's 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 2004
- 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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