Stable Block to Rear of Palmer's Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Stable block.
Stable Block to Rear of Palmer's Lodge
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-foundation-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block to Rear of Palmer's Lodge, Fordcombe Road, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 532 403
- Coordinates
- 51.14205, 0.18984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block to the rear of Palmer's Lodge is an early 19th-century building. It is two storeys high and features two windows on the first floor. The ground floor has two lunettes, one double door, and three single doors. The low-pitched, hipped slate roof is topped with an elaborate, four-tiered central dovecote with a vane. The building is constructed of red brick, which has a decorative pattern of blue headers, and includes a band at the first floor level.
Local climate
Stable Block to Rear of Palmer's Lodge receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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