Barn About 25 Metres North West of Great Forge Farmhouse
BARN ABOUT 25 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT FORGE FARMHOUSE, RIDING LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248440
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 25 Metres North West of Great Forge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 25 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT FORGE FARMHOUSE, RIDING LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/07370/03
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert Miles. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248440
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 25 Metres North West of Great Forge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN ABOUT 25 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT FORGE FARMHOUSE, RIDING LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 25 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT FORGE FARMHOUSE, RIDING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hildenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 56603 49482
Details
HILDENBOROUGH RIDING LANE (west side) TQ 54 NE 5/198 Barn about 25m north west of Great Forge Farmhouse 29.1.90
GV II
Barn. Probably C17. Framed construction on a brick and ragstone rubble plinth; weatherboarded; peg-tile roof.
Plan: East-facing. Rectangular on plan, the main structure of 6 unequal bays, the 3 left hand (south) bays wider, then the threshing bay, with 3 narrower bays at the north end. Opposed threshing doors; rear outshut and front right outshut.
Exterior: Single-storey. Roof hipped and gabletted at the left end, gabletted and half-hipped at the right end. Asymmetrical east front with a pair of probably C19 full-heigh threshing doors approximately in the centre. Small doorway to the left of centre with 2 small C20 windows above, similar window to the front outshut. The rear elevation has a porch with hipped roof. The south return has 4 C20 windows.
Interior: Tie-beam and queen strut roof construction with clasped purlins and curved wind braces. The tie-beams are supported on jowled wall posts with straight braces to the ties. The large scantling wall framing has curved tension braces above the middle rail with some replacement of studs. The north end bay was originally partitioned off. The rear outshut partition has been removed.
A good example of a traditional barn of the region. The C20 windows are carefully scaled and positioned.
Group value with Great Forge Farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TQ5664249482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 02-Jul-2026 at 17:05:02.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.