Barn and Attached Cowshed at Franks Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Barn, cowshed.

Barn and Attached Cowshed at Franks Farm

WRENN ID
heavy-loggia-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1982
Type
Barn, cowshed
Address
Barn and Attached Cowshed at Franks Farm, Dartford Road, Horton Kirby and South Darenth
OS grid reference
TQ 552 679
Coordinates
51.38945, 0.22961
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn and attached cowshed at Franks Farm is a large 18th-century L-shaped structure. The barn features weatherboarding and a steeply pitched old tiled roof, with two hipped wagon entrances. The cowshed, positioned at right angles to the barn, is also weatherboarded but stands on a brick base and has a tiled roof, complete with loading doors.

Local climate

Barn and Attached Cowshed at Franks Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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