Little Swallows is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Little Swallows
- WRENN ID
- winding-steel-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Swallows, Golford Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3NS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 788 365
- Coordinates
- 51.10011, 0.55284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Swallows, formerly known as Moat Farm House, is a farmhouse that may have originally been a hall-house, dating from the 16th century but clad in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with red and blue brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. Some of the framing is exposed with rendered infill on the first floor at the rear. The roof is plain tiled, and there is a large brick end stack on the left that projects with a breast, along with a brick ridge stack located to the right of center. The building has two storeys and a regular four-window front, with two and three-light lattice casements. There is a boarded door with a small flat hood above it, positioned to the right of center. At the rear, there is a part catslide roof and a hipped stair tower dormer.
Local climate
Little Swallows 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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- 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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