The Beacon is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
The Beacon
- WRENN ID
- unlit-courtyard-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Beacon, Rolvenden Road, Benenden, TN17 4BU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 822 323
- Coordinates
- 51.06173, 0.5988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beacon is an early 19th-century house, potentially built on the site of an earlier 17th-century structure. The ground floor is built of red brick in a Flemish bond with grey headers, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is old tiled, with a central square brick chimney stack and two chimney stacks at the ends. The house is two storeys and has attics in the gable ends, with four windows. The windows are 16-pane sashes with horns. A central doorcase features a flat wooden weatherhood on brackets and a decorative rectangular fanlight; the door itself is modern.
Local climate
The Beacon 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
- 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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