The Rock Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Rock Public House
- WRENN ID
- long-ashlar-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Rock Public House, Chiddingstone, TN8 7BS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 497 431
- Coordinates
- 51.16778, 0.14025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rock Public House is a 16th-century building that was altered on the outside in the early 19th century. It has two storeys and three windows, featuring a tiled roof and tile-hung first floor. The ground floor is made of red brick with a pattern of blue headers and has a dentilled band at the first floor. The building includes modern doors and leaded casements, as well as modern side extensions. The roof slopes low at the back. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace with carved beams and ashlar jambs, along with some old beams, stout posts, diagonal braces, and remnants of an old window. A significant amount of restoration has been carried out. The Rock Public House is part of a group that includes the barn to the east, Spoke Shave, and Cherry Cottage.
Local climate
The Rock Public 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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