House to North West of Farningham Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse.

House to North West of Farningham Oast

WRENN ID
sombre-chalk-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
House to North West of Farningham Oast, Benenden Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 804 354
Coordinates
51.09027, 0.5754
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse, now a house, located to the north-west of Farningham Oast. It dates back to the 16th century, was extended in the 17th century, and restored in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with painted plaster infill and features a plain tiled roof that is hipped with a gablet to the north. There is a tall half-hipped block to the north and a prominent oversailing stack on the ridge at the north end, with a gabled dormer to the left. The house has two storeys and an attic on the north side, with an irregular arrangement of windows: four on the first floor and five on the ground floor. To the right, there is a low pitched 20th-century extension that projects out and has a stack at the eaves. The rear of the house has various projections. Inside, heavy timber framing is visible, along with a brick stack that features a wooden bressummer arch fireplace on the ground floor. The roof has a queen post structure with continuous side purlins, and there are roll-moulded beams on both the ground and first floors.

Local climate

House to North West of Farningham Oast 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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