Chesnut House Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Tea rooms. 1 related planning application.
Chesnut House Tea Rooms
- WRENN ID
- stark-corbel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Tea rooms
- Address
- Chesnut House Tea Rooms, 19, High Street, Charing, TN27 0HU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 952 493
- Coordinates
- 51.20998, 0.79404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut House Tea Rooms is a timber-framed building dating from the 15th to 16th century. It has been refaced with brick, which is now painted, but it still shows the overhang of its first floor supported by brackets on the north front. The roof is hipped and covered with tiles. The building features sash windows with intact glazing bars and has two bays on the ground floor. There is a six-panelled door, and the north front is weatherboarded.
Local climate
Chesnut House Tea Rooms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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