Kemp's is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kemp's
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gutter-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kemp's, Potter's Lane, Hawkhurst, TN18 5BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 761 328
- Coordinates
- 51.06793, 0.51304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemp’s is a house dating back to the 15th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and has tile hanging, covered by a plain tiled roof. The house originated as a Wealden hall house, and features a rebuilt 19th-century bay, a 2-bay hall, and a 2-bay service/parlour wing. It is two storeys high, with a jetty to the right-hand bays, and eaves carried on brackets to the two left-hand bays. The roof is half-hipped, with a stack cluster located centrally to the left. To the left, the house steps down to a two-storey gabled wing with a stack at the end. The first floor has three 3-light wooden casements, two single casements, and one 2-light casement. The ground floor has French doors, two 3-light casements, a single casement, and a 2-light casement. A rib and stud door is located centrally to the left. A section is outshot to the end of the right.
Local climate
Kemp's receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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