Barn Immediately South of the Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1974. Barn/restaurant.
Barn Immediately South of the Plough Inn
- WRENN ID
- slow-rampart-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1974
- Type
- Barn/restaurant
- Address
- Barn Immediately South of the Plough Inn, Powder Mill Lane, Hildenborough
- OS grid reference
- TQ 567 468
- Coordinates
- 51.19955, 0.24259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn immediately south of the Plough Inn is a building currently used as a restaurant. It is possibly from the early 18th century, although the Royal Commission for Historical Monuments suggests it may date from the late 18th to early 19th century. The barn features framed construction on a brick plinth, with weatherboarding and a peg-tile roof.
The barn faces east and has a five-bay layout, with a central entrance on the east side and an east aisle. The north end bay is lofted, and there is evidence that the fourth aisle bay from the south was once partitioned off from the rest of the barn on the north and west sides, although this partition has since been removed.
On the exterior, the central porch on the east side is flush with the east wall of the aisle and has a hipped roof. The original doors have been replaced with a small doorway. There is a large 20th-century timber window with glazing bars on the left (south) return and four 20th-century windows on the right (north) return. The roof is half-hipped at the ends and extends down as an outshut over the aisle on the east side.
Inside, the barn features tie-beam trusses with queen struts and diagonally-set staggered butt purlins. There are straight braces between the jowled wall posts and tie-beams. The aisle roof is supported by horizontal timbers between the aisle post and aisle roof purlins, with timbers angled down from the aisle posts to the wall plate of the aisle walls. The wall framing is close-studded with straight braces above the middle rail.
The barn has group value with the Plough Inn. A photographic record, report, and scale drawings of the barn from 1974 are available in the National Monument Record.
Local climate
Barn Immediately South of the Plough Inn receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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