Bentham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Bentham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-bracket-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bentham Farmhouse, Southborough, TN4 0LT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 569 422
- Coordinates
- 51.15825, 0.2428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentham Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been refaced in brick on the ground floor and features tile-hanging on the first floor. It has a saw-tooth stringcourse made of diagonally inserted bricks between the ground and first floors. The farmhouse has a tiled gabled roof with a ridge stack and is two storeys high. The facade includes four windows with 19th-century casements.
Local climate
Bentham Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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