The Nunnery is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
The Nunnery
- WRENN ID
- empty-marble-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Nunnery, Nunnery Lane, Penshurst, Tonbridge, TN11 8HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 518 416
- Coordinates
- 51.15392, 0.16985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nunnery is a 16th-century timber-framed house that has modern extensions. The entrance front features a long lean-to and a modern gable on the right. The main garden front is two storeys high with an attic and has five windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof that is hipped on the left, along with two dormers. The first floor is tile hung while the ground floor is made of brick. There is a modern right wing, and the windows are diamond-paned casements. The entrance includes a reproduction plank door set under a flattened Tudor arch, and there is a modern loggia on the left side. Inside, there are two inglenooks with incised plaster work above and a lot of exposed timber. The roof structure features side purlins with wind braces.
Local climate
The Nunnery receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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