Longford is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. House.
Longford
- WRENN ID
- winding-rampart-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Longford, Main Street, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 526 437
- Coordinates
- 51.1724, 0.18215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longford is a building dating from around 1820, located on the south side of Main Street in Penshurst. It is two storeys tall and constructed of painted brick, featuring projecting eaves and a hip roof covered with Welsh slate. The building has sash windows and includes a one-storey projection at the side, which has a modern Georgian-style replica doorway with a fanlight above. This projection also features a side casement window topped with an entablature and a segmental pediment. The side elevation is tile-hung. Longford is part of a group of buildings that includes Quaintways Tea Rooms, The Cottage, Colquhoun House, Kirkwood Garden Shop, and La Petite Hair Salon.
Local climate
Longford 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- No related consent applications matched
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