The Chestnut Tree is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Chestnut Tree
- WRENN ID
- twisted-ledge-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Chestnut Tree, Benover Road, Yalding, ME18 6EX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 698 493
- Coordinates
- 51.21773, 0.43029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnut Tree is an 18th-century house, originally a public house. It is timber framed and the front is clad with blackened weatherboarding, while the right gable end is tile-hung. The roof is tiled. The building faces south and is set at a right angle to the road. It is two storeys high with a garret. It has projecting brick gable-end stacks. The window arrangement is irregular, with two three-light wooden casements. There is a low single-storey addition to the left gable end, and a rear lean-to. A single-storey pebbledashed addition faces the road and extends from the right gable end; it has a hipped tile roof, a gable end stack, two sash windows, a central half-glazed door, and a blocked doorway towards its right end. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
The Chestnut Tree receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions 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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