The Kentish Rifleman Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Kentish Rifleman Public House
- WRENN ID
- under-copper-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kentish Rifleman Public House, Roughway Lane, Shipbourne, TN11 9RU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 612 526
- Coordinates
- 51.24983, 0.30912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kentish Rifleman Public House is a building that began as a hall-house dating back to the 16th century, and has undergone numerous additions through the 17th to 20th centuries. The north-facing front, which faces the road, is painted and rendered, but some sections reveal original timber framing to the west and south. The roof is tiled, with a hipped shape and gablets, and includes a ridge stack. A projecting, gabled wing is located to the right of the centre on the north front, with tile hanging on the first floor to the west. The main block's roof extends outwards to form catslides on either side of the north wing. The building is partially two-storey and partially one-storey with an attic, and has an irregular pattern of 19th-century casement windows. Two boarded doors are present, one at the end of the north wing, and another beside the wing to the left. One-storey sections extend to the south-west and east, with the eastern section being long and low.
Local climate
The Kentish Rifleman Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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