Kippington House Old Folks' Home and Coach Building to North West is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Old folks' home. 15 related planning applications.
Kippington House Old Folks' Home and Coach Building to North West
- WRENN ID
- buried-gable-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Old folks' home
- Address
- Kippington House Old Folks' Home and Coach Building to North West, Kippington Road, TN13 2LN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 522 543
- Coordinates
- 51.26791, 0.1809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kippington House, an 18th-century building that now serves as an old folks' home, stands with attached coach buildings to the northwest. The main house has a rendered facade with a symmetrical two-bay-and-two-window arrangement. It is two storeys high, distinguished by a slightly projecting, pedimented central feature. A plinth runs along the base, topped by a band above the ground-floor windows. The building is further defined by a projecting, moulded dentilled cornice and a parapet. The roof is hipped and slate-covered, punctuated by two tall, rendered stacks, also featuring dentilled cornices. Most of the sash windows have had their glazing bars removed.
A projecting, single-storey porch extends from the centre of the facade, featuring rusticated lines imitating stone courses and flat pilasters supporting a moulded entablature with a dentilled cornice. It has a flat roof and a parapet. Inside the porch is a panelled door, with a rectangular recessed rendered panel positioned above it. Sash windows flank the door on either side.
The building has historic associations with the Farnaby family, who originally occupied the house. An earlier Jacobean house once stood on the site, and some of the coach buildings located to the rear date from the 17th century.
Local climate
Kippington House Old Folks' Home and Coach Building to North West receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 21 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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