Leesden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House.
Leesden
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-oriel-magpie
- 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
- Leesden, Standen Street, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 809 305
- Coordinates
- 51.0458, 0.57968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leesden is a house that likely has a 17th century rear wing and an 18th century front, which was refronted around 1820. The ground floor is made of red brick with grey headers, while the first floor is tile hung, and the side elevations are weather-boarded. The house has a tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks and is two storeys tall with three windows featuring 20th century casements. The central doorcase has a flat wooden hood, decorative paterae, pilasters, and panelled reveals. The roof features three hips at the rear. Inside, there is an 18th century bressumer in the dining room, an early 17th century bressumer at the rear of the house, and some wide floorboards that date back to the 16th or early 17th century.
Local climate
Leesden 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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