Barn About 3 Metres North West of Murzie Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Barn.

Barn About 3 Metres North West of Murzie Farmhouse

WRENN ID
secret-balcony-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 734 462
Coordinates
51.18952, 0.48074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located about 3 meters northwest of Murzie Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations from the 17th or 18th century. The barn is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. It features five timber-framed bays, with the original 17th-century section comprising three bays and two additional bays added to the left in the later 17th or 18th century. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with a gablet on the left side.

There is a weatherboarded porch with double doors and a hipped roof that juts out over the front, positioned at the third timber-framed bay from the right. Lean-to structures are present on both the right and left sides of the porch. Inside, the 17th-century section showcases chamfered gunstock-jowled posts, an arch-braced tie-beam, and a clasped-purlin roof featuring diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and vertical queen struts to the collars. Tension braces and stave lath and straw daub infilling are found in the right and central bays as well as the porch. A central full-height post is located at the right gable end, jowled towards the interior of the barn. The front wall of the left bay of the 17th-century section has been removed, and the post adjusted to allow for the addition of the slightly later porch. The roof over the two left bays is similar to the rest but lacks windbraces and is constructed with smaller timber.

Local climate

Barn About 3 Metres North West of Murzie Farmhouse 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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