Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Farmhouse.
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-span-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Halden Lane, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 847 339
- Coordinates
- 51.07515, 0.63568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a ground floor of red brick above weatherboarding, topped with a tiled roof and end external brick chimneystacks. It stands two storeys high with attics and has three windows. The front of the house has two large end gables and a smaller central gable. The central window is a 12-pane sash, while the end windows are 16-pane sashes. There is a wide doorcase supported by Tuscan columns, and the rear of the house has a catslide roof.
Local climate
Mount Pleasant 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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