Wall and Gates to Courtyard at Front of Preston Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1989. Wall and gates. 2 related planning applications.
Wall and Gates to Courtyard at Front of Preston Hall
- WRENN ID
- open-gallery-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1989
- Type
- Wall and gates
- Address
- Wall and Gates to Courtyard at Front of Preston Hall, Culpeper Road, Aylesford, ME20 7NJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 728 580
- Coordinates
- 51.29513, 0.47714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and gates to the entrance court of Preston Hall, built around 1850 by John Thomas for Edward Betts, are made of dressed stone with an ashlar finish above. The wall has a square plan with curved corners and features both wall and balustrade elements. The balustrade includes geometrical abstracted balusters and moulded standards. In the center, there is an entrance to the forecourt, flanked by gate-piers that have stone bands, cornices, and urns. The balustrade is supported by volute decoration. The wall stands 4 feet high, the standards reach 6 feet, and the piers are 9 feet tall.
Local climate
Wall and Gates to Courtyard at Front of Preston Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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