Turkey House About 25 Metres North East of Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Agricultural building. 1 related planning application.
Turkey House About 25 Metres North East of Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-threshold-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Turkey House About 25 Metres North East of Park Farmhouse, TN11 0NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 616 450
- Coordinates
- 51.18161, 0.31093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turkey House, likely dating to around 1850, is part of the home farmstead of Somerhill, now within the Hadlow Estate. It was designed as part of a Victorian farmstead with buildings styled to complement a Vernacular Revival house, creating a picturesque and functional layout. The turkey house is situated approximately 25 metres northeast of Park Farmhouse, oriented with its roof running east to west. The rear elevation is visible from the farm lane, which leads past the farmstead to the estate laundry.
The building is single-storied and symmetrical, with a four-window south front featuring left and right gabled projections. A central, hipped roof ventilator with a finial sits atop the roof. The gables are timber-framed with curved braces and pendants at the apex. The front has three original plank and cover strip doors: one central door, and one in each gable. There are four two-light timber casement windows, together with two gabled dormers with pendants. The rear elevation mirrors the front with matching dormers and framed gables to the crosswings. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Turkey House About 25 Metres North East of Park Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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