Barn About 8 Metres South-East of Hush Heath Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Barn.

Barn About 8 Metres South-East of Hush Heath Manor

WRENN ID
tangled-brick-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 757 407
Coordinates
51.13911, 0.51111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located about 8 metres south-east of Hush Heath Manor, dates back to the 17th century. It features a timber frame clad with weatherboarding and has a red and grey brick plinth in Flemish bond, with a stone plinth on the left (east) gable end. The structure consists of five timber-framed bays, a rear (south) aisle, and a central midstrey. The roof is hipped to the right and gabled to the left, projecting by one rafter couple beyond the gable-end wall. The purlins extend further, supported by a short tie-beam that carries a hipped plain-tile hoist-hood. Long raked braces connect the projecting wall-plate ends to the purlins.

At the front, there are central full-height double doors. The rear porch rises from the aisle and features banded red and grey tile-hanging on the sides, a hipped plain-tile roof that jetties forward on straight braces, and full-height double doors. A lean-to is attached to the right gable end.

Inside, the barn has shaped jowls on the chamfered principal posts. The roof includes a clasped purl with diminishing principal rafters and almost straight windbraces, though some of these have been replaced in two right bays after a fire. The aisle has raked queen posts clasping the purlin. The aisle is partly separated from the rest of the barn by midrails between the principal (or arcade) posts, with studs below and tension braces above. The barn exhibits similar framing throughout, with threshing floor braces on either side of the midstrey. The hoist hood is a relatively unusual feature in this area.

Local climate

Barn About 8 Metres South-East of Hush Heath Manor 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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