Minerva House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Villa. 4 related planning applications.
Minerva House
- WRENN ID
- final-stair-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Minerva House, 54, London Road, Riverhead, TN13 2DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 513 564
- Coordinates
- 51.2869, 0.16855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minerva House is an early 19th century villa, originally a three-window design. It has a low-pitched slate roof with small lead gargoyles on the gutter. The exterior is rendered in incised stucco. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set within moulded wooden architraves. The front door consists of six panels, with a glazed upper section, and is framed by a shouldered, moulded architrave featuring a head of Minerva on the keystone. The building features an oak-leaf swell frieze, a moulded cornice, and egg-and-dart moulding on the blocking course. Inside, the entrance hall is a diagonal chequered pattern of black and white marble. One original marble fireplace remains.
Local climate
Minerva House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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