Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1990. Farm office.
Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-terrace-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1990
- Type
- Farm office
- OS grid reference
- TQ 644 447
- Coordinates
- 51.17836, 0.35133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former farm office, now used as a workshop and store, dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards, featuring a brick stack and chimney shaft, and has a peg-tile roof.
This farm office is notably ornate and designed to be picturesque. It is a single-storey, one-room structure located in front and to the left of Lydd Farmhouse. The front gable end faces northwest and includes a porch on the right side. The rear gable end has a stack.
The exterior features 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars, arranged one above the other on the front gable end. The gable is decorated with cusped bargeboards, a timber finial, and a pendant. The porch has segmental arches on shaped imposts at the front and back, with the outer side open and filled with a wooden trellis. Above this level, all four sides have rectangular fixed pane windows with margin panes of coloured glass. There is a small modillion eaves cornice and deep eaves supported by shaped brackets at the corners. The roof is tall, spire-like, and topped with a weathervane at the apex. The doorway beneath the porch contains 19th-century part-glazed double doors.
This former office contributes significantly to the overall charm of the traditional farm buildings surrounding Lydd Farmhouse.
Local climate
Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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