Old Barrack Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. House. 7 related planning applications.
Old Barrack Farm
- WRENN ID
- leaning-hinge-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Barrack Farm, Reading Street, Tenterden, TN30 7HT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 922 304
- Coordinates
- 51.04092, 0.74101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Barrack Farm, formerly the Post Office, is located on Reading Street and dates back to 1724, as indicated on the frame of the central first-floor window. The building is two storeys tall with an attic, constructed of red brick featuring grey headers. It has a hipped tiled roof with a central chimney stack and three dormers. A stringcourse runs along the building, and there are five casement windows. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase with a flat wooden weatherhood. Old Barrack Farm, along with Ebony Cottage, Wellbro Cottage, and Skeers House, forms a cohesive group of buildings.
Local climate
Old Barrack Farm 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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