Barming Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A C18 House.
Barming Place
- WRENN ID
- other-tracery-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barming Place, Tonbridge Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 728 546
- Coordinates
- 51.2649, 0.47661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barming Place is a large house built in the mid-18th century. It has three storeys and a basement, constructed of red brick with an ashlar base. The roof is hipped and tiled, and there is a parapet featuring alternating panels of red brick and stone balustrading with stone balusters. The building has a stone modillion cornice and long and short stone quoins.
There are five segmental-beaded windows with painted keystones and intact glazing bars. The central window on the first floor is higher and wider than the others, while the central window on the second floor is a lunette with geometric tracery. The entrance porch is accessed by three steps and features wooden Tuscan columns, an open pediment, and a semi-circular fanlight that mirrors the design of the lunette window above. The porch has double doors that are half-glazed.
To the south of the main house, there is a two-storey red brick addition with two windows on the ground floor and a doorway flanked by stuccoed pilasters, a cornice, and a parapet. The doorway has a round-headed arch with half-glazed double doors and a semi-circular fanlight above. There is one window on the first floor above the door and blocked window spaces on either side. A stringcourse runs above this addition, topped by a panelled parapet.
On the north side, the house is flanked by a single-storey addition that features a similar doorway with empty niches on either side. This addition has a higher panelled parapet and a pyramidal slate roof. The outer sides of both additions are matched by wings made of ashlar, each with long and short quoins, two storeys high, and two windows on the ground floor.
Local climate
Barming Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
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