Providence Chapel and House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A C19 Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Providence Chapel and House
- WRENN ID
- lost-chapel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Providence Chapel and House, Buckhurst Road, Frittenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 817 410
- Coordinates
- 51.13999, 0.59653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Providence Chapel and House is an early 19th-century building located on Buckhurst Road in Frittenden. It features a red brick structure with a slate roof. The building consists of a single-storey chapel and a two-storey house that are attached under a single gabled roof, with a stack positioned at the centre right. The façade includes two large glazing bar sash windows on the left and centre, with the left window featuring a gauged brick head. Central double panelled doors are topped with a heavy cornice hood supported by brackets. To the right, there are wooden casements on both floors, along with a boarded door set in a segmentally headed doorway located to the centre right.
Local climate
Providence Chapel and 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 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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