Hancock's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Hancock's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
steep-ledge-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hancock's Farmhouse, Tilsden Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PH
OS grid reference
TQ 783 354
Coordinates
51.09048, 0.54509
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hancock's Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the early 16th century, with a mid-16th century block added to the left. The structure is timber-framed, sitting on a red brick plinth and is plastered, featuring plain tiled roofs that are half-hipped on the right arch return cross wing. There are end brick stacks and a large stack in the center at the rear. A continuous jetty extends over the ground floor, with a slight step up to the right at the junction between the left-hand block and the wing, all supported by curved brackets. The building has two storeys and garrets, with a window in the garret of the cross wing. The front is slightly irregular with four windows, featuring large 19th-century wood-framed lattice casements. To the right of center, there is a boarded and ribbed door with a transom light above, set in a moulded architrave surround. At the rear, there is a deep catslide extension.

Inside, there is a substantial timber frame and a large fireplace with a deep wooden bressummer. The northeast block has a side-purlin roof with collars and diminishing principals, along with some curved braces. The wing has a heavier scantling roof with collars and very small spaces between the rafters. An early 18th-century staircase was brought in around 1978.

Local climate

Hancock's Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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