Barn about 18 metres south of Bell Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. A C16 Barn.
Barn about 18 metres south of Bell Farm House
- WRENN ID
- strange-moulding-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn about 18 metres south of Bell Farm House, ME17 1HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 871 523
- Coordinates
- 51.23982, 0.67986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 18 metres south of Bell Farm House, dates back to the early 16th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, standing on a brick plinth. The barn features a hipped plain tile roof, with the rear half on both sides decorated with alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles. The structure is positioned at right angles to the road and has a 19th-century lean-to at the rear gable end. There is a canopied porch from the 18th or 19th century with boarded doors on both the right side (north-west) and the left side (south-east), as well as mid-20th century full-height boarded doors facing the street.
Inside, the barn consists of four bays, with aisles on both sides. There is a midstrey in the third bay from the street, which contains the remains of what may have been a 19th-century threshing floor. The posts feature gunstock jowls and are supported by curved braces connecting to the tie-beams and arcade plates. The crown-posts are plain, with two curved braces extending downward and two upward, although some of the braces are missing.
Local climate
Barn about 18 metres south of Bell Farm House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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