Barn Approximately 40 Metres South of Brook 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 40 Metres South of Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-span-summer
- 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 40 Metres South of Brook Farmhouse, TN12 6TT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 645 448
- Coordinates
- 51.17899, 0.35295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located approximately 40 meters south of Brook Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century with some remodeling in the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards, topped by a corrugated iron roof, which was originally either peg-tile or thatch.
The barn is designed as a threshing barn oriented on a north-west to south-east axis, facing the farmyard to the north-east. It originally featured large double doorways on opposite sides leading to the threshing floor, but the front doorway is now obscured by a secondary lean-to outshot. The lean-to on the left end may not be original but is likely an early addition, while the various sheds and lean-tos at the front are from the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Most of the front wall is concealed by a mix of secondary additions, but the extreme right end is visible, featuring a small doorway with a 19th-century plank door. Above this doorway, there is a 19th-century pivoting casement window with glazing bars. The main barn has half-hipped ends, with the left end extending as a hip over the outshot. The rear double doorway is not full height and is blocked, now containing a 20th-century window.
Inside, the barn is open to the roof and consists of four bays. The frame uses large scantling timbers, with some bays featuring large curving tension braces, while most have been replaced with narrower straight braces. The wall posts have formed jowls, and the tie-beams are supported by straight arch braces. The roof is constructed with clasped side purlins and queen struts.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 40 Metres South of Brook 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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