Tongswood Farmhouse with Walled Fore Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A C17 or earlier House. 7 related planning applications.
Tongswood Farmhouse with Walled Fore Yard
- WRENN ID
- secret-jamb-quill
- 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
- Tongswood Farmhouse with Walled Fore Yard, Water Lane, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 776 309
- Coordinates
- 51.05061, 0.53328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tongswood Farmhouse is a house likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, set upon a brick and stone base. The rear wing has tile hanging above a sandstone ground floor. The roof is tiled, with a half-hipped section to the left, and stacks positioned centrally to the left and at the right end. The house's layout follows a lobby-entry plan.
The front elevation features a plinth and two storeys, with three leaded wooden casement windows of four lights on each floor. A smaller window with two lights sits above the front door, which itself features six raised and fielded panels and a flat hood supported by brackets. A basement opening leads into a brick-lined open passageway on the left return. A catslide roof extends to the rear, and a two-storey rear wing possesses a half-hipped roof.
A brick wall, approximately three feet high, with buttresses, rounded corners, and coping bricks, projects forward to enclose the front garden.
Local climate
Tongswood Farmhouse with Walled Fore Yard 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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