Great Nineveh 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.
Great Nineveh
- WRENN ID
- sombre-courtyard-plover
- 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
- Great Nineveh, Nineveh Lane, Benenden, TN17 4LG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 782 322
- Coordinates
- 51.0618, 0.54306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Nineveh is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, which has been extended and substantially altered in the late 18th or early 19th century, and further updated with 20th-century windows. The ground floor is built of red brick with grey headers, while the first floor is weatherboarded on the east and north sides and tile-hung on the west. The north wing is believed to be the oldest part of the house and has a markedly steeper roof. The roof is tiled and has two brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high with attics. It has two windows facing north and three windows facing east, all casement windows. There are two penticed dormers on the north side, along with a large gabled porch and a flat-roofed extension added in the 20th century. The east front has one penticed dormer, alongside a 20th-century dormer with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Great Nineveh 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 — 3 transactions since 2010
- 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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