Bayford House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bayford House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-passage-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bayford House, Queen Street, Sandhurst, TN18 5HR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 793 286
- Coordinates
- 51.0288, 0.55669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bayford House is a house dating from the early 17th century, which has been altered in the early 19th century and has a 20th-century wing at the rear. The ground floor is built of red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is tile-hung. The house features a 19th-century tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks. It has two storeys, attics, and a basement, with three windows in total. There are two 19th-century gabled dormers with casements and 19th-century casements on the lower floors. The basement has cambered headed openings, and there is a 19th-century gabled weather porch with curved weatherboarding. At the rear, there is a 17th-century kitchen wing. Inside, there is an open fireplace in the parlour dating from around 1625, as well as another fireplace in the kitchen that includes a Victorian range.
Local climate
Bayford House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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