Scotney Castle with Courtyards and Garden Terrace is a Grade I listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1954. A Designed 1835 House. 19 related planning applications.
Scotney Castle with Courtyards and Garden Terrace
- WRENN ID
- spare-threshold-myrtle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1954
- Type
- House
- Period
- Designed 1835
- Address
- Scotney Castle with Courtyards and Garden Terrace, Lamberhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 687 353
- Coordinates
- 51.09285, 0.40821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scotney Castle, designed in 1835 and built between 1837 and 1844, is a house located in Lamberhurst, Kent. The architect Anthony Salvin created this Tudor-style building for Edward Hussey, using sandstone from its own quarry and a slate roof. The design features a multi-gabled layout with a battlemented tower, and it showcases mullioned windows and bays throughout. To the east, there is a garden terrace enclosed by balustraded walls, while to the north, there are kitchen and stable courtyards with arched gateways, including a clock tower in the stable courtyard. Inside, the castle is largely decorated in Jacobean style, featuring imported 17th-century panelling and woodwork, much of which is of Flemish origin. The house was home to architectural writer Christopher Hussey, who provided a detailed description of it in Country Life on September 6th and 13th, 1956. Scotney Castle remains unaltered both externally and internally.
Local climate
Scotney Castle with Courtyards and Garden Terrace receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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