North Frith Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
North Frith Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-obsidian-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Frith Farmhouse, Ashes Lane, Hadlow, TN11 9QU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 612 504
- Coordinates
- 51.23087, 0.30778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Frith Farmhouse is a farm manager's house built around 1856. It features English bond brickwork, which includes many burnt headers that create a banded appearance. The house has brick stacks and chimney shafts topped with a couple of original cream-colored octagonal chimney pots, and it is covered by a pantile roof.
The house has a double-depth plan and faces south, with a front and back room on either side of a central entrance lobby and main staircase. The service rooms are located at the rear, with the kitchen on the left (west) side, which has a projecting rear end stack. The principal rooms are at the front, with the left room featuring an axial stack and the right room having a gable-end stack. The house is two storeys tall.
The exterior has a symmetrical three-window front, mostly consisting of horned 12-pane sash windows, with a central first-floor 9-pane sash. The central doorway features a part-glazed four-panel door with an overlight, situated behind a gabled brick porch with a Tudor-style outer arch. The two front gables have wavy bargeboards, and the main roof is gable-ended. The side walls maintain the same style, although there are a few 20th-century casements on the right (east) end and at the back.
Inside, the farmhouse retains original joinery details. It was constructed alongside the adjoining farm buildings and oast, creating an attractive model farm.
Local climate
North Frith Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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