Thirkells Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1986. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Thirkells Barn
- WRENN ID
- brooding-thatch-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Thirkells Barn, Chiddingstone, TN8 7PP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 484 469
- Coordinates
- 51.20267, 0.12356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thirkells Barn, formerly the barn to the east of Harborough, is a 17th-century structure that was altered in the 19th century. It features a four-and-a-half bay framed design, with the exterior clad in weatherboarding resting on a 19th-century brick plinth. The roof is peg tiled, hipped to the south and gabled to the north, which includes a penticed bay adjacent to a central plain cart entrance. The roof structure consists of a mix of queen strut and queen post trusses. The barn has gunstock jowled posts and some diagonal tension braces in the wall frame. The rafters were renewed in the 20th century. There is a 20th-century lean-to attached on the south side, which is not of special interest.
Local climate
Thirkells Barn receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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