Fountain House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Commercial, residential. 4 related planning applications.
Fountain House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-remnant-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- Fountain House, High Street, Goudhurst, TN17 1AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 722 377
- Coordinates
- 51.1132, 0.45966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain House is an early 19th-century building with shops, built on the site of an earlier structure. The exterior is primarily from the early 19th century, while the underlying structure is of an earlier date. It is timber-framed and has a roughcast finish with applied close-studded framework, with a painted ground floor. The roof is tiled. The building originally comprised three storeys, with a basement, and includes stacks positioned centrally to the left and projecting at the right end. The top floor has two three-light and one central two-light leaded casement windows. The first floor has two three-light and one two-light windows. A canted plate glass bay window is located to the left, and a panelled door with a flight of seven steps is at the end. The basement and ground floor have a central three-light casement window and a canted multi-pane bay window dating from the early 19th century, with half-glazed doors to the centre left and centre right, the latter having a gabled hood. Local tradition suggests the building may have originated as a cloth hall.
Local climate
Fountain 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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