North Frith House, Gentlemens Bathing Box is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1996. Bathing box.
North Frith House, Gentlemens Bathing Box
- WRENN ID
- pitched-facade-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1996
- Type
- Bathing box
- Address
- North Frith House, Gentlemens Bathing Box, Ashes Lane, Hadlow
- OS grid reference
- TQ 609 502
- Coordinates
- 51.22851, 0.30444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Frith House, Gentlemen's Bathing Box is a gentlemen's bathing box built around 1889, possibly by George Friend, or slightly earlier. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone and features a tiled roof with ridge tiles and terracotta finials at the ends. The building has a plank door located in the gable end. This structure represents an extremely rare building type.
Local climate
North Frith House, Gentlemens Bathing Box 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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