Barn Approximately 35 Metres North West of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Barn.

Barn Approximately 35 Metres North West of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place

WRENN ID
dusk-bastion-sorrel
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 645 490
Coordinates
51.21684, 0.35482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a barn located approximately 35 meters northwest of the Old Farmhouse at Style Place. It dates from the late 17th century and was partly rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century. A small section of the barn is weatherboarded, likely covering original 17th-century timber framing, while the rest is constructed of 19th-century brick, with a Flemish bond pattern, featuring red brick at the rear and ochre-colored brick at the front. The roof is covered with peg tiles.

The barn faces southeast towards the farmhouse and is divided into three compartments beneath a continuous hayloft. At the northeast end, there is a room with a staircase leading up to the hayloft. Slightly left of center is a cartshed, and the left end section serves as part of a stable, which includes a lower and narrower range projecting from that end. Due to extensive rebuilding in the 19th century, it is unclear how the original 17th-century barn functioned, as the framed walls only survive at first floor level on the front and end walls.

The exterior features an irregular front, with a brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor. All ground floor openings have segmental arches above them. There are two doorways: one on the right leading into the barn and a wider one on the left leading to the cartshed. Both doorways have brick surrounds that project from the wall, and there is a similar small doorway into the stable wing. The windows are fixed pane with glazing bars, with two similar windows on the first floor and a hayloft loading hatch on the right. The roof is half-hipped at each end, while the stable extension has a gable end.

Inside, the hay floor is supported by plain 19th-century crossbeams and joists. The barn features a 17th-century four-bay roof with tie-beam trusses, although the arch braces have been removed. The trusses include staggered butt purlins and raking struts, with most of the common rafters being original.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 35 Metres North West of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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