Finchurst is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Finchurst
- WRENN ID
- floating-tallow-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Finchurst, Marden Road, Goudhurst, TN17 1JT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 725 402
- Coordinates
- 51.13516, 0.46503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house located on Goodhurst Marden Road, Finchurst, dating from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in 1622 and around 1900. The house is timber framed and has exposed close studding with plaster infill, topped with a plain tiled roof. It is an end-jettied hall house, originally open but later floored in and extended with a cross-wing in 1622. The ground floor sits on a red brick base. The left end has a jetty, and the eaves step down towards the centre to create a storey and a half. The cross-wing to the right has a hipped roof, with the hip supported by carved brackets featuring pendants and a moulded bressummer. The main roof is half-hipped, with a gablet and chimney stacks at the rear right and a tall, central moulded stack, featuring a diagonal section fillet and cornices. A gabled semi-dormer with bargeboards is located centrally to the left and bears the date 1622. A gabled porch, dating from around 1900, is positioned centrally to the right and contains a boarded door. There are three-light wooden casement windows on each floor.
Local climate
Finchurst 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 — 5 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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