Heart's Delight House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Heart's Delight House
- WRENN ID
- western-bailey-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Heart's Delight House, Heart's Delight Road, Borden, ME9 8HZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 885 621
- Coordinates
- 51.32685, 0.70523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heart's Delight House is a house that dates from the 16th century, with later cladding from the 17th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad with red brick and tile hung, topped by a plain tile roof. The house has two storeys and a hipped roof, with stacks that project at the left end, as well as at the centre left and rear right. There is a separately hipped extension to the right. The windows are arranged irregularly, with four wooden casements on each floor, and there is a boarded door located to the centre left. The right side of the house showcases exposed close-studded framing.
In front of the house, a 16th-century red brick wall encloses a courtyard. This wall is 6 feet high, extends 10 yards from the front of the house, and runs a length of 10 yards before returning. The west wall features a plank and stud door set in a brick arch with a flat head, along with a discontinuous cornice and coping.
Local climate
Heart's Delight House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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