Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of the Poult House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of the Poult House
- WRENN ID
- plain-sandstone-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TQ 611 497
- Coordinates
- 51.22377, 0.30681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a threshing barn located approximately 30 meters north of The Poult House. It dates from the 18th century or early 19th century, although some of the timbers may be from the 17th century. The barn features weatherboarded timber-framing and a peg-tile roof.
The barn faces northwest and has nearly full-height opposing double doors that open onto a central threshing floor. There are integral outshots at both ends and across the rear. The doorways and windows are 20th-century replacements, with plain plank double doors at the front, 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and garage doors for the lean-to outshots. The barn has a gable-ended design, but the roof is hipped at the north end and extends down each side and to the rear over the outshots.
Inside, the barn consists of five bays. Mortises in the middle rails and wall plates indicate that the non-structural framing, which includes slender straight tension braces, is a secondary addition. Mortises in the wall posts suggest that there were once arch braces to the wall plates. The full-height wall posts have jowled heads and support arch-braced tie-beams. Above, there are collared trusses with clasped side purlins and queen struts.
This barn is a well-preserved example of an unconverted Kent barn.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of the Poult House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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