Barham House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House.

Barham House

WRENN ID
stony-courtyard-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
House
Address
Barham House, Alders Road, Capel
OS grid reference
TQ 629 446
Coordinates
51.17813, 0.32996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barham House is a house built around 1850-1860, constructed of Flemish bond red brick with some stucco detailing. It features brick stacks and chimney shafts topped with 19th-century chimney pots, and has a slate roof. The house faces northeast and is set back from the road, designed with a double depth plan that includes a front and back room on either side of a central entrance hall and staircase, with projecting end stacks. The building has two storeys and attics in the roof space.

The exterior is symmetrical with a three-window front centered around the main entrance. The original two-panel doorway, which has an overlight without glazing bars, is sheltered by a bulky stucco porch that is accessed by a flight of stone steps. This porch is supported by large columns and features a flat roof with a moulded entablature. On either side of the entrance, there are large tripartite sash windows without glazing bars, each framed by stucco flat architraves and moulded entablatures on scroll consoles. A flat stucco band runs across the front at the first floor level, where the windows are sash windows with margin panes set beneath low brick segmental arches. The roof has a gable end with a single flat-roofed dormer at the front. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Barham 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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