Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. House. 4 related planning applications.
Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- weathered-banister-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chestnuts, St Leonard's Street, West Malling, ME19 6PE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 675 569
- Coordinates
- 51.28669, 0.40183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnuts is a house that was formerly two cottages, likely built in the 16th century and restored in the 20th century. It is a timber-framed building, with the left side featuring close-studding on a ragstone plinth and a tiled roof. The gable end has a four-light mullioned window, while the first floor has two two-light mullioned windows, and the ground floor features a large window flanked by two smaller mullioned windows. The right side is also close-studded and has two two-storey gabled bays. There are two brick chimneystacks, including an external one on the right side, and a rear wing added in the 1930s.
Inside, the dining room includes a chamfered axial beam with a lamb's tongue stop, and there is an open fireplace with a chamfered beam and 16th-century brickwork. The service end has another open fireplace and three-plank doors. The first floor features jowled posts and some original mullioned windows. The roof has queen posts with through purlins and a collar beam, along with some curved braces, but no ridgepiece. There is also a butler's pantry from the 1930s.
Local climate
Chestnuts receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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