The Rockery is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Rockery
- WRENN ID
- vast-chapel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rockery, Talbot Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4NE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 755 297
- Coordinates
- 51.03994, 0.50275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rockery is a house, formerly a pair of houses, dating from the 18th century. It features a timber-framed and weather-boarded exterior with plain tiled roofs. The building consists of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high, with a half-hipped roof to the right. There are stacks located at the centre left, as well as projecting and offset stacks at the end left and rear end left. On the left side, there is a two-storey canted bay with sash windows, while the first floor has a sash window and two 3-light wooden casements. To the right on the ground floor, there is a 3-light wooden casement and a mullioned and transomed casement, along with a panelled door located to the centre left within a gabled porch. A rear wing projects from the end left.
Local climate
The Rockery receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- 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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