Wickens 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.
Wickens
- WRENN ID
- still-stronghold-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wickens, Horseshoe Green, Cowden, TN8 5PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 483 415
- Coordinates
- 51.15376, 0.11937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wickens is a restored structure from the 15th century or earlier, now divided into two separate houses, likely originally designed as halls joined end to end. The left part is taller, with two storeys and three irregularly placed windows, while the right part has two storeys and two windows. Both sections feature large hipped roofs covered with renewed tiles. The first floors display exposed timber framing with plaster filling, and the ground floors are made of red brick with a pattern of blue headers. The houses have modern diamond leaded casements and two plank doors situated under bracketed leaded hoods. The roof slopes low at the back. Inside, there are exposed timbers, although the inglenooks have been filled below the beams.
Local climate
Wickens 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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- 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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