The Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Church. 6 related planning applications.
The Church House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-plaster-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Church House, 70, High Street, Snodland, ME6 5AG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 704 617
- Coordinates
- 51.32961, 0.44519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church House is a former Nonconformist church dating to approximately 1870, built in an Early English style. It is located on the south side of the High Street in Snodland. The building is constructed of irregularly laid Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings and tiled roofs with gable parapets.
The building comprises a nave, a north-west tower, and a chancel. The tower has three stages, separated by bands, and features half-height stepped buttresses and a crenellated parapet. The first stage of the tower incorporates a doorway with a chamfered arch, above which are four joined lancet windows. The second stage has two larger lancet windows, and the third stage contains single pointed lancet windows with bell-louvres. The four-bay nave’s outer bays are partially obscured to the north by the tower and to the left by a projecting gabled vestry. Paired lancet windows with simple chamfers and drip-moulds are present throughout the nave. The two-bay chancel has chamfered lancet windows with drip-moulds.
The interior retains its original features from the period of construction. The ceiling is a simple, undecorated structure featuring hammerbeam trusses. Stained glass is present in all but two of the lancet windows. The interior also includes a boxed altar with a curtain and a framed reredos, an organ case with arches decorated with quatrefoils, stiffleaf, and finial details, choir stalls, a lectern, a stone pulpit, a font decorated with Early English inset arches and mouldings, a simply decorated parclose, pews with simple detailing, roll-top armrests, and various brass plates and inscriptions.
Local climate
The Church House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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