Furnace House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House.
Furnace House
- WRENN ID
- patient-chancel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Furnace House, Bough Beech Road, Hever
- OS grid reference
- TQ 481 478
- Coordinates
- 51.21057, 0.11912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Furnace House is a late 16th century or early 17th century house that has undergone restorations in the 19th century. The main garden front features two storeys with an irregular arrangement of four and two windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with eaves that extend to create a deep overhang, likely added during the restoration. A tall central cruciform stack is present, and the first floor is roughcast. The ground floor displays visible timber framing with brick infilling, along with 19th century one-bar casements and a plank door. The gable ends are decorated with fancy tile hanging and 19th century bargeboards. There is a small south addition at right angles, which has a 19th century brick facade and porch. The main entrance is located under a modern pent porch.
Local climate
Furnace House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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