Shear Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House.
Shear Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-zinc-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shear Farmhouse, Marden Road, Goudhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 723 395
- Coordinates
- 51.12893, 0.46125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shear Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600. It features a timber frame with tile hanging, and the ground floor is infilled and refaced with red brick. The building has a two-cell lobby entry plan with an outshot, stands two storeys high with a garret, and has a half-hipped roof topped with a central cluster of three flues. The windows are regularly spaced, with two three-light wooden casements on each floor, and there is a boarded door located off-centre to the right. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot. Inside, the base of the central stack is made of sandstone, and there is a newel stair positioned against its rear side. At the time of the survey, the building had been stripped of its interior finishes, exposing its structure before re-cladding and extension took place.
Local climate
Shear Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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