Ashdown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Farmhouse.
Ashdown Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-wicket-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ashdown Farmhouse, Lamberhurst Road, Horsmonden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 695 398
- Coordinates
- 51.1328, 0.42259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashdown Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It features a timber frame that is clad with painted brick and ornamental tile hanging on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled. The building may have originated as a hall house. It has one storey and an attic on a plinth, with a two-storey crosswing to the right. The roof has a half gable and a low hip to the left, while it is hipped to the right with a projecting hipped crosswing. There are stacks to the left and a projecting stack at the end on the right. A raking dormer is located at the centre, and there are three light leaded casements to the right on the first floor, along with four light and two three light leaded casements on the ground floor to the centre and right. A half glazed dart is present in the left return elevation.
Local climate
Ashdown 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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