Barn 10 Metres South West of King's Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Barn.

Barn 10 Metres South West of King's Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
far-postern-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1991
Type
Barn
Address
Barn 10 Metres South West of King's Hill Farmhouse, ME1 3TP
OS grid reference
TQ 717 658
Coordinates
51.3661, 0.46513
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a single-aisled barn located 10 metres south west of King's Hill Farmhouse, dating from the 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring a 20th-century replacement tile roof on the north side, while the south retains original Kent tiles. The barn has a half hipped roof with cart doors under a gabled hood on the north side. It consists of five bays and is aisled on the south side. The roof structure includes a queen-post truss with pairs of straight braces connecting the main posts to the main truss. The framed walls are designed with mid-rails and braces, and it has a through purlin, ridgeless roof.

Local climate

Barn 10 Metres South West of King's Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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