Bunces Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A Medieval Hall house.

Bunces Farm

WRENN ID
lost-paling-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
Hall house
Period
Medieval
Address
Bunces Farm, 1-2, Scrapes Hill, Tonge
OS grid reference
TQ 937 638
Coordinates
51.3403, 0.7806
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bunces Farm is a Wealden hall house that has been converted into two houses. It dates from the 15th century and has been altered in the 1980s. The building is timber framed with close studding, plaster infill, and a plain tiled roof. It features four framed bays and a screen passage, along with a projecting 20th-century wing.

The entrance front is two storeys high on a plinth, with jettied end bays that return, although the left bay is obscured by the 20th-century wing. The structure includes arched bracing and a flying wall plate supported by arched braces over the hall bays. The roof is hipped, with stacks located to the centre right and projecting at both the left and right ends. The fenestration is irregular; there is a large two-storey 17th-century canted bay window inserted into the left hall bay, featuring red brick on the ground floor with six mullion and transom lights, and close-studding on the first floor with six mullion and transom lights as well. To the right, there are two wooden casements on each floor and a boarded door located to the centre left.

The right return of the building largely consists of the 20th-century wing, which incorporates re-used medieval timbers. It showcases an exposed dragon post and return jetty of the Wealden end bay, along with a large projecting stack made of stone and brick. The rear front reveals exposed close studding and arch bracing. Inside, there is a crown post roof.

Local climate

Bunces Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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