The Coffin House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. Toll-house. 1 related planning application.
The Coffin House
- WRENN ID
- upper-steeple-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- Toll-house
- Address
- The Coffin House, School Road, West Peckham, TN11 9SR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 626 523
- Coordinates
- 51.24714, 0.32962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coffin House is a toll-house built in the late 18th century, designed in the 'Gothick' style. The building has an octagonal shape with five sides on the northeast and is rectangular at the back. It stands two stories tall and features a crenellated parapet. On the first floor, there is one Gothick arched window with a Gothick glazing bar sash on each side. The ground floor has square-headed sash windows. The central entrance is a tall round-headed doorway with a drip mould above, flanked by small Gothic windows on either side.
Local climate
The Coffin House 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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