Hensill and Courtyard Buildings and Walls Attached to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House.

Hensill and Courtyard Buildings and Walls Attached to Rear

WRENN ID
knotted-railing-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1989
Type
House
OS grid reference
TQ 754 301
Coordinates
51.04389, 0.50174
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hensill is an early 19th-century house located on Hensill Lane in Hawkhurst. It is built from sandstone blocks and features a slate roof, with red brick used for the rear walls and outbuildings. The house stands two storeys high with an attic, resting on a plinth. It has a plat band and a moulded cornice parapet above a hipped roof, which has projecting and offset stone stacks at both ends, with rendered flues.

The front of the house has a regular arrangement of windows, with three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all featuring cambered heads. The central entrance door consists of three moulded panels and is topped by a traceried semi-circular fanlight, set within a Doric porch that has four moulded steps. There are dormer windows on the rear elevation.

At the back of the property, there is a courtyard enclosed by stone and red brick walls approximately eight feet high, along with a coach house and outbuildings that are two storeys tall, featuring irregular casement windows and boarded doors. A 20th-century conservatory is currently under construction on the rear left side of the main house.

Local climate

Hensill and Courtyard Buildings and Walls Attached to Rear receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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