Barn Approximately 5 Metres North of Tatlingbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Barn.

Barn Approximately 5 Metres North of Tatlingbury Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-vestry-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
Barn
Address
Barn Approximately 5 Metres North of Tatlingbury Farmhouse, TN12 6RG
OS grid reference
TQ 638 450
Coordinates
51.1811, 0.34246
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located approximately 5 meters north of Tatlingbury Farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. The north end was repaired after a fire around 1985. It has low brick footings, mostly covered with 20th-century cement, and features a weatherboarded timber frame with a peg-tile roof. The barn includes outshots made of red brick in either English or Flemish bond.

The barn is designed as a large threshing barn oriented roughly north-south, with central large opposing doorways leading onto the threshing floor. The eastern side has an aisle and a full-height porch, while there is a secondary cartshed at the south end and a lean-to outshot on the north end of the west side.

On the exterior, the west side has 20th-century double doors, and the tall roof is half-hipped at both ends. The eaves on the left extend over the secondary outshot. The east side features a roof that extends over the aisle, with the porch rising above it, topped with its own hipped roof.

Inside, the barn has five bays open to the roof. The wall posts have jowls, with straight arch braces supporting the tie beams. It features staggered butt purlins and raking struts. Most of the carpentry that survived the fire is well-preserved, and the replaced sections, primarily in the northern bay, were done expertly using pegged mortise-and-tenon joints.

This barn is part of a notable group with the medieval Tatlingbury Farmhouse and its oasthouse.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 5 Metres North of Tatlingbury Farmhouse 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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