The Red House is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. A Post-Medieval House. 4 related planning applications.
The Red House
- WRENN ID
- buried-wicket-autumn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Red House, Benenden, TN17 4AR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 346
- Coordinates
- 51.08231, 0.60213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red House is a Grade II* listed house located in Goddard's Green, dating from around 1600. This timber-framed building was refronted in the 18th century and is clad in fishscale tiles. It features a hipped tiled roof and stands two storeys high with five windows, which are 19th-century casements. The house has a hipped brick porch that includes an early 19th-century six-panelled door. There is an extension of one bay on the left-hand side.
Inside, the ground floor parlour boasts a fine roll-moulded ceiling from circa 1600 and a four-centred arched stone fireplace with a blank shield in the spandrels. The first-floor room above also has a four-centred arched stone fireplace, along with cross beams that feature lambs' tongue stops. The house retains several original late 16th-century plank doors, jowled posts, and an angled queen post roof with through purlins and an inserted ridgepiece. The original floorboards are still present.
Local climate
The Red 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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