Former Working Men's Club is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1994. Club. 1 related planning application.
Former Working Men's Club
- WRENN ID
- tenth-landing-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1994
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Former Working Men's Club, The White House, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 847 310
- Coordinates
- 51.04916, 0.63459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Working Men's Club, built in 1927-1928 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for H J Tennant of the Great Maytham Estate, is designed in a Kentish vernacular style. The building is a V-shaped block with one storey, featuring weatherboarding and hipped tiled roofs. Its symmetrical layout includes a central block with three casement windows (a four-light window in the center and three-light windows on the ends) and two half-glazed doors. Flanking this central section are projecting wings with hipped roofs, each containing one casement window and a half-glazed door. There is also a further projecting but set-back wing with a triple casement window, which ends in hipped sections with brown brick external chimneystacks and four-light casements. The left side elevation is marked by three wedge-shaped buttresses. A flat-roofed extension has been added to the right side, along with a brick flat-roofed extension from the 1960s at the rear. Inside, the building has a simple interior featuring a contemporary brick fireplace. This structure is noted for its rarity as a type designed by Lutyens.
Local climate
Former Working Men's Club sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 1995
- 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
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