The Picture House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. Commercial.
The Picture House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-chalk-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- The Picture House, Poundsbridge Hill, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 539 418
- Coordinates
- 51.15496, 0.20067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Picture House is a 17th-century timber-framed building located in Poundsbridge Hill, Penshurst. It has an H-shaped plan and features three gable ends, standing two storeys tall with an attic. The left section has a painted brick ground floor, with visible timber framing and plaster filling above. The centre part is recessed and also displays visible framing with plaster filling, featuring a monogram below the upper window. The right bay is similar to the centre but includes a stone plinth. The first floor has an oriel window with a tiled hood and plastered soffit. The gables are adorned with decorative bargeboards. The building has modern leaded casements and a full-width modern glazed entrance porch in the centre bay, along with a modern oak door.
Local climate
The Picture 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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