Charity Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Charity Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-spire-bracken
- 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
- Charity Farmhouse, Swattenden Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 767 344
- Coordinates
- 51.0819, 0.52169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charity Farmhouse, now a house, dates to the 17th century. The building is timber-framed with a brick plinth. The walls are weatherboarded, with tile hanging above the ground floor in the north gable. It has plain tiled roofs, half-hipped to the right and with a very large gable to the left. A large central ridge stack is present. The farmhouse is arranged with a baffle entry plan, and has two storeys and attics. The front has two windows, with wood-framed casement windows. The central doorway has a panelled door and a flat hood. An early 20th-century two-storey single-bay extension sits to the right, and a square bay is also present on the right hand side. A catslide outshut extends from the rear. The building was originally constructed for the Denson-Wellar Charity, records of which are held in Maidstone Archives.
Local climate
Charity 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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