Kings Toll Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1954. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Kings Toll Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-gravel-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kings Toll Farmhouse, Maidstone Road, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 647 403
- Coordinates
- 51.13905, 0.35314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Toll Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 17th and early 18th century, with substantial extensions or rebuilding occurring in the late 18th and early 19th century. The building is constructed with a timber frame, the ground floor underbuilt in brick (now painted), and the first floor tile-hung. It has a peg-tile roof and brick stacks.
The house faces east and has a three-room plan, with the two south rooms heated by a back-to-back fireplace in an axial stack, and a room at the north end heated by an end stack. A redundant hip in the roof suggests the original plan was two bays, and the north end is a later addition, possibly serving as a service block with a cellar and separate entrance. A disused lobby entrance is located against the axial stack, potentially dating from this addition. The current entrance is centrally located, leading into a late 18th/early 19th century staircase. There have been late 20th century internal alterations, including changes to the partition between the two north-end rooms.
The east front is asymmetrical, with four windows and two doors centrally positioned. A 20th-century door is set within a gabled porch hood on the left, while a 19th-century panelled door, also with a gabled porch hood and rectangular overlight, is on the right. Late 18th/early 19th century sash windows are found throughout; the ground floor left window is tripartite with 12 panes in the centre and 4 in the outer lights, while the first-floor left window also has 12 panes. Other windows have margin glazing. The rear elevation features a hipped-roof projection on the left, likely an original stair projection to the attic, and a mix of 20th-century windows.
Inside, the centre room fireplace has a truncated chamfered lintel, and the late 18th/early 19th century staircase has a turned newel and stick balusters. The roof over the south end is from the late 17th/early 18th century, retaining staggered butt purlins. The location of the redundant hip is above the entrance hall. Roof timbers beyond the axial stack have been renewed.
Local climate
Kings Toll Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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