Quaintways Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. Tea room.

Quaintways Tea Rooms

WRENN ID
far-passage-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Type
Tea room
Address
Quaintways Tea Rooms, Main Street, Penshurst
OS grid reference
TQ 526 437
Coordinates
51.17263, 0.18248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quaintways Tea Rooms is a late medieval timber-framed building, possibly originally a small hall, with later modifications. It stands two storeys high and features three windows. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof that is hipped on the left side and includes a ridge stack. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is constructed of brick. The windows are square paned casements, and there are 19th-century four-panel doors with bracketed hoods. Inside, there is an inglenook and exposed timber. Quaintways Tea Rooms is part of a group that includes The Cottage, Colquhoun House, and Longford, alongside Kirkwood Garden Shop and La Petite Hair Salon.

Local climate

Quaintways Tea Rooms 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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