Chested House 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.
Chested House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-belfry-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chested House, Chiddingstone, TN8 7BA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 506 462
- Coordinates
- 51.19539, 0.15506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chested House is probably a 16th century timber-framed farmhouse, which has been recased and extended with a 19th century gabled crosswing. The older part of the house is two storeys high with an attic, and has three windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with two 19th century gabled dormers. A rebuilt ridge stack and a stack at the junction of the building are present. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is red brick with blue headers. Modern square-paned casement windows and a gabled porch are visible. A small section of an old wall is visible, showing close-set timbers and diagonal braces.
Local climate
Chested House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- 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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