Old Place is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 5 related planning applications.
Old Place
- WRENN ID
- heavy-niche-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Place, Church Road, Sandhurst, TN18 5NX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 791 270
- Coordinates
- 51.01508, 0.55207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Place is an early 19th-century house. Cellars on the site incorporate the remains of a 17th-century or earlier building. The visible house is a red brick structure with grey brick headers arranged in a diaper pattern, topped with a hipped tiled roof and two brick stacks. It has two storeys and three windows facing the entrance front, and two storeys with four windows facing the garden front, including a mid-19th century one-bay extension on the right. A modillion eaves cornice runs around the building.
The entrance front has a 12-pane sash window on the left, a central 24-pane tripartite window, and a 20-pane tripartite window on the right. The ground floor windows have cambered heads and flat hoods supported by brackets. The entrance is through a four-panelled door. On the garden front, a central 12-pane sash window is flanked by 24-pane tripartite windows, and a matching window is in the left-side extension. The ground floor garden front windows also feature cambered heads. A doorcase with a flat hood on brackets and pilasters is also present on the garden front.
The sandstone cellars, featuring brick arches and roll-moulded beams, appear to be the ground floor of the earlier house and have been later adapted into wine cellars.
Local climate
Old Place 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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