River Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Hall house. 1 related planning application.
River Hall
- WRENN ID
- standing-passage-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- River Hall, Biddenden, TN27 8JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 863 389
- Coordinates
- 51.11989, 0.66175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
River Hall is a late mediaeval hall house that was altered and refaced in the 18th century. It has an L-shaped layout. The exterior is primarily red brick, with the first floor of the west wing tile-hung. The roof is tiled, featuring four gabled dormers. A small square wooden bell turret rises above the roof, topped with an ogee-shaped lead cupola and a weather vane. Four sash windows with original glazing bars are present. The door is set within a doorcase featuring a flat hood supported by brackets, and it has six fielded panels.
Inside, the house retains a dragon beam and a crown post roof. There are partitions on either side of the hall, and an early 18th-century kitchen containing a spit rack.
Local climate
River Hall 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 1998
- 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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