The Hopfield is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1981. House.
The Hopfield
- WRENN ID
- high-minaret-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hopfield, Comp Lane, Platt
- OS grid reference
- TQ 626 568
- Coordinates
- 51.28792, 0.33181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hopfield is a house built in 1933 by Colin Lucas as a weekend retreat for himself, designed in the International style. The exterior is made of rendered concrete. On the south side, there is a projecting dining room with a sun terrace above it to the left, and an inset ground floor window to the right, featuring a large window above and a balcony that wraps around to the east side, with a stair leading down to the east along the south elevation. The roof overhangs both balconies, supported by projecting joists. The east elevation has a balcony to the left with a stair leading down, and a large window below the balcony. The north elevation features a two-storey stair window to the right. The west elevation has the main entrance set back in a re-entrant angle to the left, with the first floor supported on a square pier at the corner of the block, and double glazed doors. All original metal-framed casements are intact. Inside, there is a concrete spiral staircase.
Local climate
The Hopfield receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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