John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Shop and house. 6 related planning applications.
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-glass-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Shop and house
- Address
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 746 445
- Coordinates
- 51.17343, 0.4969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century house and shop row, with alterations and a new facade dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and comprises three sections. The ground floor is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the first floor is clad in banded plain and fishscale tiles. Timber framing is exposed on the right side of the passage leading to the former number 3. The roof is covered in plain tiles, with brick ridge stacks positioned towards the left and right ends.
The fenestration is irregular, featuring three sixteen-pane sash windows on each floor. A half-glazed door serves as the entrance to John's Hairdresser on the left, a panelled door with a rectangular three-light fanlight leads to Marsida on the right, adjacent to a passage to the former number 3, and another half-glazed door provides access to the late 19th or early 20th century shop front of The Old Sweet Shop at the right end.
Two short rear wings extend to the rear, with their roofs hipped.
A partial inspection of the interior of The Old Sweet Shop revealed chamfered cross and axial beams on both floors, a large shaped jowl and straight tension brace to the rear corner post, and a clasped-purlin roof.
Local climate
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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