Tunstall House is a Grade I listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A C17 (pre-1678) House. 1 related planning application.
Tunstall House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-clay-swift
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- C17 (pre-1678)
- Address
- Tunstall House, Tunstall Road, ME9 8DX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 894 618
- Coordinates
- 51.32397, 0.71781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tunstall House is a 17th-century house, built before 1678. It features chequered brick in Flemish bond and has a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, set on a plinth with a plat band. It is adorned with four corniced gables and a projecting gabled porch that has two storeys and a garret on the left side. To the right, there are large stacks with four panels, and to the left, there are two panels, along with a wooden turret capped with a lead cupola.
The windows are regularly arranged, with five wooden casements in the gables, all having segmental heads except for the porch. The leftmost window in the gable is blocked by a lozenge-shaped clock face. The house also features four mullioned and transomed windows on the first and ground floors, along with a cross-window in the porch. The multi-panelled door is accessed through a round-arched entry in the porch, which is supported by fluted Doric pilasters and has a frieze, bolection cornice, and a pediment that includes a bust of Shakespeare.
The house was likely built for Sir Edward Hales, who died in 1654, or for his steward John Grove, who died in 1678.
Local climate
Tunstall 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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