Broadfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Farmhouse. 11 related planning applications.
Broadfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-column-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Broadfield Farmhouse, Old Soar Road, Plaxtol, TN15 0QX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 618 536
- Coordinates
- 51.25912, 0.31801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broadfield Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1700, although it may be older. It features plum brick with blue headers, a coursed rubble plinth, and a moulded brick platband. The building has a moulded eaves cornice with a coved plaster soffit and a plain tiled roof that includes two hipped dormers and projecting end stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys with an attic and has a symmetrical front with two windows fitted with metal casements. The central entrance has a panelled door topped by a flat projecting hood, and there is a datestone marked R1700B above the door. To the left of the main house is an office wing, which has a random rubble stone ground floor and stock brick above. This wing also features moulded eaves and a plain tiled roof with an east end stack, and it is two storeys high with three windows, also with metal casements.
Local climate
Broadfield Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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