Furnace Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.

Furnace Mill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
still-pediment-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1989
Type
House
Address
Furnace Mill Farmhouse, Water Lane, Hawkhurst, TN18 5AY
OS grid reference
TQ 774 313
Coordinates
51.0542, 0.5303
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Furnace Mill Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century, with extensions made in the early 19th century and late 20th century. The building features red and blue chequered brick on the ground floor and is weather boarded above, topped with a plain tiled roof. It consists of two parallel ranges and stands two storeys high on a plinth. The roof has a paired modillion eaves cornice, with stacks located to the left and projecting at the right end and to the rear.

Originally, the house had a regular arrangement of windows, featuring two tripartite glazing bar sashes on each floor, with a central single glazing bar sash on the first floor. The entrance door is made up of six panels and is set within a moulded projecting surround topped with a flat cornice hood. An extension to the left adds one bay, which includes a glazing bar sash on the first floor and French doors on the ground floor. To the right, a late 20th-century wing is recessed and features a tripartite glazing bar sash on the first floor and plate glass on the ground floor.

Local climate

Furnace Mill 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Bridge at Tq 775 314 Grade II 84 m
  2. Bridge at Tq 775 313 Grade II 105 m
  3. Charlton Farmhouse Grade II 315 m
  4. Octagonal Tank at Tongswood Farm Grade II 322 m
  5. Stock House to North of Stables at Tongswood Farm Grade II 380 m
  6. Stable Range and Cottages to South of Main Stable Block, Tongswood Farm Grade II 402 m
  7. Open Sided Barn at Tongswood Farm Grade II 416 m
  8. Rectangular Tank at Tongswood Farm Grade II 437 m
  9. Tongswood Farmhouse with Walled Fore Yard Grade II 451 m
  10. Gun Green Farmhouse Grade II 565 m