Weatherboarded Barn to South West of Thorne Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C18 Agricultural.

Weatherboarded Barn to South West of Thorne Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sombre-hearth-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Agricultural
Address
Weatherboarded Barn to South West of Thorne Farmhouse, Forge Hill, Bethersden
OS grid reference
TQ 931 402
Coordinates
51.12857, 0.75885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is an 18th-century weatherboarded barn located to the south-west of Thorne Farmhouse. It features a half-hipped tiled roof.

Local climate

Weatherboarded Barn to South West of Thorne Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% 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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