Barn at Babbs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1992. Barn. 5 related planning applications.
Barn at Babbs Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-barrel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1992
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Babbs Farmhouse, Babbs Lane, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 791 329
- Coordinates
- 51.068, 0.55501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century barn located at Babbs Farmhouse. It is a timber-framed structure, with weatherboarding cladding set on a brick plinth. The barn has a half-hipped roof covered with old tiles. It originally comprised five bays and features a central cart entrance. The wall frame includes a midrail. Internally, the roof structure incorporates a collar beam, through purlins, and a ridge piece.
Local climate
Barn at Babbs Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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