Barn About 40 Metres North East of Henhurst Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Barn.
Barn About 40 Metres North East of Henhurst Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-fireplace-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TQ 781 424
- Coordinates
- 51.15326, 0.54541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 40 metres northeast of Henhurst Farmhouse, dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a plain tile roof. The structure features five timber-framed bays and possibly an integral rear lean-to, topped with a half-hipped roof. There are full-height double doors at the rear (east) and a porch at the front with boarded sides, a hipped plain tile roof, and full-height double doors rising from the front lean-to.
Inside, the barn has gunstock jowls on the principal posts, and the roof is supported by closely-staggered butt purlins just below the collars, with intermediate collars towards the gable ends. Most of the original studding and tension-braces are still intact. The wall-plates exhibit splayed-and-tabled and edge-halved scarf joints. Additionally, there is boarding across the end of the lean-to on the south side of the porch that is dated 1755 and 1769. Henhurst Farmhouse itself is not listed.
Local climate
Barn About 40 Metres North East of Henhurst 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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