Southdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Southdown House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-portal-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Southdown House, Chevening, TN13 2QD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 507 554
- Coordinates
- 51.2787, 0.15937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southdown House is an irregular building comprising two phases of construction, with an 18th-century core and a front elevation restuccoed in the early 19th century. It is likely of timber frame construction. The house has two storeys and five windows. It features a high-pitched tiled roof with stuccoed chimneys, a high parapet above a cornice and blocking course, and two flat dormers. The windows on the first floor have moulded architraves; some are sash windows with bracketed cills, while others are long casements. A first-floor band runs around the building. The ground floor is banded and rusticated, with sash windows. A modern central glazed door is flanked by side lights incorporating wrought iron screens. Blind cases are present on the long first-floor windows. The house is part of a group that includes The Post Office (Nos 1 to 9, Park Place Cottages), Glencot, Yew Tree Cottage, Tanners Cottage, its garden wall, and Southdown Cottage.
Local climate
Southdown House 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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