Church of St Francis De Sales is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1972. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Francis De Sales
- WRENN ID
- pitched-steel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1972
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Francis De Sales, Church Road, Hartley, DA3 8DW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 607 677
- Coordinates
- 51.38562, 0.30881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Francis de Sales, formerly known as The Barn at the Priory, is likely a 17th-century timber barn that has been converted into a Roman Catholic Church. The building features three bays and a Queen post roof, topped with a steeply pitched thatched roof that includes a hipped central pentice. It has modern windows and doors.
Local climate
Church of St Francis De Sales sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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