Priors Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Priors Croft
- WRENN ID
- ancient-bailey-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priors Croft, Spode Lane, Cowden, TN8 7HW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 464 406
- Coordinates
- 51.14661, 0.09202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priors Croft is a very small hall house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, featuring an altered front and later extensions. The building has two storeys and three irregularly placed windows. It is topped with a high-pitched tiled roof, which has a long hip on the left side that is cut off at the end. The right side has a hip that is brought down as a lean-to. There is one visible bay post. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of brick and rubble. The base features coursed freestone, supporting a projecting chimney breast with a very tall compound stack above. The windows are iron casements with leaded panes. The rear view reveals exposed framing with plaster filling above, along with coursed and random rubble and red brick dressings below. Inside, there is an inglenook and much exposed timber.
Local climate
Priors Croft receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- 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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