Birchbarns is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House.
Birchbarns
- WRENN ID
- woven-flagstone-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birchbarns, Water Lane, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 304
- Coordinates
- 51.0463, 0.52699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birchbarns is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with cladding and extensions added in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame, with red brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, topped by a plain tiled roof. Originally a hall house, it has two storeys. The early part of the building, located on the left, has a tall, steeply pitched hipped roof with gablets and a central cluster of moulded stacks, while the roof steps down slightly to the right and projects out. There are six wooden casement windows on the first floor, with the two on the left set at a slightly lower level. The ground floor has five windows, with the two in the centre featuring mullions and transoms, and there is a boarded door located in the side of a hipped porch to the centre left. The window styles are from the 20th century. The right-hand extension covers some of the exposed framing and an outshut that was noted in the old Provisional List.
Local climate
Birchbarns receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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