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

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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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