The Buxton House Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Commercial building.
The Buxton House Stores
- WRENN ID
- stony-latch-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- The Buxton House Stores, Main Street, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 526 437
- Coordinates
- 51.17267, 0.18267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buxton House Stores is an early to mid-19th century building located on Main Street in Penshurst. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The exterior is finished in stucco and includes an entablature and a blocking course, along with a string course at the first floor. The sash windows are set in eared architraves with brackets below and have glazing bars. The right window on the ground floor has a scroll-bracketed cornice. There is an altered late 19th-century double shop front on the left side. The building is noted for its group value with nearby structures, including Nos 1 & 2 (Rectory Cottages), The Leicester Arms Hotel, and Nos 1 & 2 (Leicester House).
Local climate
The Buxton House Stores 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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