R B House and Hand Rails Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House.
R B House and Hand Rails Attached
- WRENN ID
- turning-railing-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- R B House and Hand Rails Attached, the Square, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 898 522
- Coordinates
- 51.23748, 0.71818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
R.B. House, now used as offices, is an early 19th-century building that was previously listed as Stanfield House. It is constructed of rendered brick and has a plain tile roof. The building is double depth, featuring three storeys and a semi-basement on a plinth, with a plain wooden eaves cornice. The front and rear sections each have separate hipped roofs. There are large red brick ridge stacks located to the right of the center of each section, along with a very small brick stack at the left end between the sections. The façade has a regular three-window arrangement with recessed glazing-bar sashes, and the ground and first-floor windows are topped with a single Soanian line. A reeded architrave with a semi-circular head is situated above a door that is accessed by four steps with iron handrails, located between the left and central windows. This door consists of six fielded panels and has a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. There is a blocked door between the left window and the left end of the building. The interior features 19th-century details, with some walls reportedly studded.
Local climate
R B House and Hand Rails Attached sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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