Watchester Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Watchester Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-banister-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Watchester Farmhouse, Watchester Lane, Minster
- OS grid reference
- TR 306 642
- Coordinates
- 51.3305, 1.30943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watchester Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on Minster Watchester Lane. It is constructed of brown brick and has a slate roof. The building stands two storeys high on plinths, featuring a plat band and wide eaves that support a hipped roof with chimney stacks positioned to the left and rear right. The windows are regularly arranged, with three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all featuring gauged heads. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door set within a projecting corniced porch, which is accessed by two steps.
Local climate
Watchester 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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