Tea House in the Japanese Garden, Bitchet Green is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2017. A C20 Tea house.
Tea House in the Japanese Garden, Bitchet Green
- WRENN ID
- still-chancel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2017
- Type
- Tea house
- Address
- Tea House in the Japanese Garden, Bitchet Green, Lantern Cottage, Seal, TN15 0NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 567 542
- Coordinates
- 51.26591, 0.24542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tea House in the Japanese Garden at Bitchet Green is a Japanese tea house imported from Japan. It is part of a Japanese garden designed by architect Raymond Berrow for Hugh Micklem, built between 1919 and 1921.
The tea house features a wooden framework for the walls with painted infilling and a wooden floor. It has metal guttering, a rain spout, and a hipped thatched roof. The building is single-storey and square in shape, with a part-raised design. The rear and part of the side elevations have walls that create a large alcove, while the rest of the structure remains open.
The roof has two hips; the upper hip is covered in water reed thatch, while the lower hip has a metal covering along with metal guttering and a front water spout. The walls are framed with thin square sections and painted red, previously white. The rear wall features a central oval unglazed opening with wooden divisions. The front of the tea house is supported by two wooden corner posts with braces that support the overhanging roof. The wooden floor includes a handrail along the front and part of the sides, and the front section of the floor partially overhangs a pond.
Local climate
Tea House in the Japanese Garden, Bitchet Green 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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