Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Nos 1 and 2 Brook Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Barn.

Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Nos 1 and 2 Brook Cottages

WRENN ID
hollow-gable-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 603 455
Coordinates
51.18652, 0.29319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-19th century threshing barn located approximately 30 meters north of Nos 1 and 2 Brook Farm Cottages in Capel. The barn is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards, sitting on brick footings, and features a peg-tile roof.

The barn has a south-facing elevation and consists of three bays with central opposing doorways leading to the threshing floor. There are integral outshots at the rear and a return around the left (west) end. The front of the barn has central full-height double doorways that still contain the original plank doors, with smaller doorways on either side. At the rear, there is a lower doorway from the outshot. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.

Inside, the barn is very well-preserved, featuring three bays. The framing includes staggered rails and large curving braces. From the posts beside the main doorways, there are large raking struts extending down the sides of the threshing floor. The left (western) rear bay is filled with slender struts and narrow waney planks nailed across the front, creating a grille effect. The roof is supported by tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Nos 1 and 2 Brook Cottages 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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