Poplar House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A Tudor House.

Poplar House

WRENN ID
tenth-banister-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1989
Type
House
Period
Tudor
Address
Poplar House, Staplehurst Road, Frittenden
OS grid reference
TQ 809 423
Coordinates
51.15136, 0.58571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poplar House is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the early 18th century. It features a timber frame that is clad with red and blue brick and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan, likely originating from a hall house design.

It stands two storeys high, with both return elevations jettied and adorned with a moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice. The roof is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right, with a cluster of cruciform stacks located on the center left. The first floor has two three-light and two two-light wooden casements, while the ground floor includes a three-light metal casement and three and two-light wooden casements. A boarded door is positioned to the center left of the façade.

Notably, the stack features a plastered section with an incised heraldic crest. The house may represent an end-jettied hall house, a re-fronted Wealden house, or a re-fronted continuous-jetty building, with possible construction dates ranging from the early 15th century to the mid-16th century.

Local climate

Poplar House 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 lower than that of 61% 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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