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
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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