Barns and Outbuildings to North East of Fir Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Barn, outbuilding.

Barns and Outbuildings to North East of Fir Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
keen-plinth-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1985
Type
Barn, outbuilding
Address
Barns and Outbuildings to North East of Fir Tree Farmhouse, Plough Wents Road, Chart Sutton
OS grid reference
TQ 802 506
Coordinates
51.22671, 0.58033
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barn and outbuilding located to the northeast of Fir Tree Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 19th century. The structures were repaired after storm damage around 1990. The barn is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, sitting on a stone plinth, and features some original shuttered openings. It has a hipped tiled roof and a wooden floor inside. Attached to the southeast is a single-storey block that is partly constructed of red brick and partly timber-framed, also with weatherboard cladding and a tiled roof. The wall frame includes diagonal braces.

Local climate

Barns and Outbuildings to North East of Fir Tree Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% 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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