Poplars Including Garden Railings to the North is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Farmhouse.

Poplars Including Garden Railings to the North

WRENN ID
rusted-balcony-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Poplars Including Garden Railings to the North, Horsmonden
OS grid reference
TQ 702 425
Coordinates
51.15688, 0.4332
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-17th century former farmhouse, later divided into two occupations, with alterations from the early 19th century and some 20th-century extensions. The house is constructed with close-studded framing, with the first floor and attic stories tile-hung and featuring bands of scalloped tiles; it has a peg-tile roof and brick stacks. The left (north) return wall has been rebuilt in brick.

The house faces north and follows a double-depth plan, two rooms wide, with a central entrance and two short crosswings. Each crosswing has an axial stack with a rear centre stair projection flush with the ends of the wings. A south-facing extension, likely from the 19th century, includes re-fenestration.

The front elevation presents a handsome, almost symmetrical appearance with four windows. The house is jettied on the front and returns, displaying gables to the left and right, with a lower central gable; the right-hand gable is slightly larger than the left. The first-floor jetty has a moulded fascia and moulded brackets at the front left corner and a plain curved bracket at the front right. The attic storey is also jettied with similar brackets. Moulded bargeboards are present to the gables. A half-glazed 19th-century front door is set behind a recessed porch, with short arched braces to the porch lintel. Two ground-floor early 19th-century canted bay windows, featuring 16-pane sashes, are centrally located and flanked by four-pane outer lights. The first floor has four early 19th-century 12-pane sashes, with three similar sashes, one to each gable. The ground-floor close-studding includes an original blocked mullioned window alongside the porch to the left. A 19th-century outshut, slightly set back, is tile-hung with ornamented tiles at the right end, with a further brick and tile-hung addition behind it. The rear elevation is less regular, with likely 19th-century small-pane casements, a 19th-century rear centre door with a flat porch hood, and an outshut at the right (east) end. Garden railings on a low brick plinth, including a cast iron gate with fleur-de-lis finials to the verticals, are included in the listing.

The west end of the house was the only part inspected internally. The jettied south return wall of the main block remains complete, now internal, with close-studding to sole plate level and a blocked mullioned window within the framing. The right-hand (west) front room preserves exposed ceiling carpentry, including a dragon beam, a 20th-century chimneypiece, possibly concealing an earlier fireplace. The 19th-century addition contains a Victorian kitchen with an open fireplace featuring brick jambs and a timber lintel. The east end of the house was not fully inspected, but a 19th-century stick baluster stair rises in the entrance hall, and 17th-century carpentry is likely to survive elsewhere.

Local climate

Poplars Including Garden Railings to the North receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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