Fir Tree House Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C16 or C17 Tea room. 1 related planning application.

Fir Tree House Tea Rooms

WRENN ID
broken-rubble-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1975
Type
Tea room
Address
Fir Tree House Tea Rooms, Penshurst Road, TN11 8DB
OS grid reference
TQ 526 437
Coordinates
51.17296, 0.18175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree House Tea Rooms is a picturesque cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It likely has a framed structure but features 19th-century alterations and changes to its exterior. The building is two storeys tall and has dormers, topped with a half-hipped tile roof that includes a ridge stack. The exterior is plastered and has a wide projecting stone plinth with entasis. There is a studded period door and a large bay window on the left side, which has wooden mullions and transoms, along with a continuous tiled hood that extends over both the window and door, wrapping around to the side elevation. On the right side, there is a small bay window of a similar design. On the first floor, there are two projecting bay windows with casements that are supported on carved wooden brackets.

Local climate

Fir Tree House Tea Rooms 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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