The Old Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1988. Barn, oasthouse.
The Old Barn
- WRENN ID
- fading-balcony-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1988
- Type
- Barn, oasthouse
- Address
- The Old Barn, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 790 356
- Coordinates
- 51.09233, 0.55483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Barn is a barn and oasthouse located on Coursehorn Lane. The barn likely dates from the early 18th century and was altered in the early 19th century when the oasthouse was added. It features a timber-framed structure clad in weatherboarding, except for the gable end opposite the oasthouse, which is made of brick with tile hanging. The barn has a half-hipped peg-tiled roof and stands two storeys tall, with central cart entrances and three later casement windows on the southwest elevation. Inside, the barn consists of five bays with an oak frame, staggered purlins, a collar beam, and no ridge piece. It includes some diagonal and curved tension braces and jowled upright posts. The oasthouse, added at the end, is conical in shape, constructed of red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond, featuring a cogged eaves cornice and a pyramidal roof topped with a cowl and fantail.
Local climate
The Old Barn 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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