Lake House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Lake House
- WRENN ID
- graven-portal-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lake House, Staplehurst Road, Frittenden, TN17 2ED
- OS grid reference
- TQ 812 423
- Coordinates
- 51.15129, 0.59008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lake House is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with extensions and alterations made from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad with weatherboarding and tile-hanging on the first floor, with part of the structure exposed at the rear right and infilled with plaster. The roof is plain tiled. Originally, it was likely a hall house.
The front of the house has two storeys and showcases two moulded gable ends with bargeboards, the left gable being larger and featuring two tripartite sash windows on each floor along with a glazed door. The left side has a glazing bar sash window on the first floor and another on the ground floor, with a wooden casement window at the far left.
At the rear right, the entrance front has two storeys and includes a projecting cross-hipped wing on the right, which has an exposed frame on the first floor and a large cluster of chimneys at the centre. There is a separately hipped wing to the left with a chimney at the far left. The left side has a wooden casement window, while the right side has a glazing bar sash window on the first floor and a three-light wooden casement window on the ground floor, alongside a mullioned window to the left that connects to a curved passage leading to an adjoining barn that has been converted into part of the residence. The central entrance features a boarded door with a flat hood supported by brackets. The exposed frame seen is not the original exterior wall but rather part of an interior truss, with an arch-braced tile beam.
Local climate
Lake 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 lower than that of 61% 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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