Church House (Ymca) is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Public building. 8 related planning applications.
Church House (Ymca)
- WRENN ID
- upper-cobble-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Public building
- Address
- Church House (Ymca), Church Lane, TN9 1DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 591 467
- Coordinates
- 51.1978, 0.2763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House (YMCA) is an 18th-century building located on Church Lane. The front features weather-boarding on the ground floor and painted tiles above, with a slight bellcast and traces of a moulded bressumer indicating an older timber-framed structure beneath. The building has two storeys and an attic, with five windows and three hipped dormers facing south, and two windows and two dormers facing east. It has a tiled roof and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The windows are in wooden surrounds with intact glazing bars. The main entrance is accessed by five steps with a handrail, set within a moulded architrave surround that includes a rectangular fanlight and a flat hood supported by brackets. There is a door with six fielded panels. Another entrance is located to the east, also up five steps, featuring double doors and a rectangular fanlight. The south front is adorned with arrow head railings, although the steps are a modern replacement.
Local climate
Church House (Ymca) receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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