Furnace Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Furnace Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-moat-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Furnace Farmhouse, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2QZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 739 348
- Coordinates
- 51.08675, 0.48213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Furnace Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse. The ground floor has plaster infilling, while the first floor is tile-hung with a slightly oversailing, bell-cast design. The roof is tiled with a half-hipped shape and a brick ridge stack. The front facade is slightly irregular, featuring a four-window arrangement with casement windows. A boarded door is set within a flat wood surround supported by brackets.
Local climate
Furnace 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 — 4 transactions since 2014
- 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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