Lowland Farm House and Walled Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Farmhouse.
Lowland Farm House and Walled Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- narrow-minaret-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lowland Farm House and Walled Forecourt, Sand Lane, Frittenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 814 397
- Coordinates
- 51.12869, 0.59139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowland Farm House and its walled forecourt are located on Frittenden Sand Lane. The house dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made around 1701 and 1711. It features a timber frame clad with red and blue brick, and the first floor is tile hung, topped with a plain tiled roof. Originally a four framed bay hall house, it has been modified to include a lobby entry and three half-hipped rear wings. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof and a cluster of moulded and filleted stacks to the centre right.
On the first floor, there are three-light and four-light wooden casements to the left, and a glazing bar sash to the right. The ground floor has two-light and three-light wooden casements, along with another glazing bar sash. The entrance door is made of four raised and fielded panels, topped with a flat cornice hood supported by open scrolled brackets. The rear wings contain early casements that are still shuttered. Inside, the house is fully framed and features inglenooks and a four-centred arched doorway leading to the parlour, which has indented spandrels. The roof is supported by crown posts.
The walled forecourt, dating from the 18th century, has walls made of red brick that rise about three feet high and are regularly buttressed. The wall extends approximately 15 yards in front of the house and about 50 yards along the roadside, with corner piers and a 19th-century metal gate at the centre.
Local climate
Lowland Farm House and Walled Forecourt sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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