Church Farm Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Barn.
Church Farm Barn
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chalk-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Church Farm Barn, Church Hill, Boughton Monchelsea
- OS grid reference
- TQ 769 495
- Coordinates
- 51.21754, 0.53203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farm Barn is a 17th-century barn that has been converted into a house, with 18th-century cladding added. The conversion took place between 1982 and 1983. The structure is timber-framed and clad with red and grey brick, while the front elevation of the left end bay features buff brick in Flemish bond. It has a plain tile roof and consists of five timber-framed bays, which originally included a central midstrey, with an additional bay added to the south. The barn has front and rear aisles and is 1 1/2 storeys high, topped with a half-hipped roof.
A gabled porch, which rises from the aisle to the right of the center, has a weatherboarded gable and a paned window in place of doors. The upper storey is lit by irregular fenestration, which includes seven windows apart from the porch: one four-pane light with a segmental head on the left addition, one three-light casement, and four vertical slit lights. There is also a further two-light casement within a blocked doorway at the left end, along with a ribbed door towards the right end and ribbed garage doors at the right end.
Inside, the barn features exposed framing, long shaped jowls, arch-braced tie beams, and arcade plates. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with diminishing principal rafters and vertical queen-struts to the collars. The arcade-plate scarf is edge-halved, and there are high aisle tie-beams and curved passing shores. The carpenters' marks visible on the structure are scribed and chiselled, dating from the same period as the barn's construction.
Local climate
Church Farm Barn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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