Hartley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Hartley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-cobalt-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hartley Farmhouse, Hartley Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3QG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 347
- Coordinates
- 51.08509, 0.51191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartley Farmhouse is a hall-house, dating to the early 16th century, which has been re-clad in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and now clad with plain and scalloped tile hanging. The building has a plain tiled hipped roof with a tall central red brick stack. The original plan was for a 3-bay hall-house. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows; three windows are visible on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with three closely grouped to the left of the front door. All the windows are wooden casements. A central boarded door is sheltered by a shallow pentice hood supported on brackets. A 20th-century catslide extension is located at the right end of the building.
Inside, the substantial timber frame is still visible. Large fireplaces are present in the sitting and dining rooms. In an upstairs bedroom, two blocked windows remain, featuring diagonal mullions. An arched hall truss survives, though the crown post is missing, though the notches remain visible. Curbed braces are visible on the first floor.
Local climate
Hartley 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 2000
- 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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