Hodges is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 1 related planning application.

Hodges

WRENN ID
tired-lantern-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
House
Address
Hodges, Dundle Lane, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7HD
OS grid reference
TQ 644 398
Coordinates
51.13471, 0.34933
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house, likely dating from the early 18th century, with later additions from the late 19th and 20th centuries and some internal changes. The ground floor is built of Flemish bond brick, while the first floor is covered in tiles; it has a peg-tile roof, a brick stack, and a slate roof to a rear lean-to extension.

The original layout of the early 18th century probably comprised a two-cell plan, with a larger room to the east, originally heated by an end stack, and a smaller parlour to the west. The house has been extended with a separately roofed block at the east end and a rear lean-to.

The south-facing front has an asymmetrical arrangement of two windows followed by one. The front door is a plank door, located to the left of the centre, and it is sheltered by a flat porch hood. There are three-light, small-pane casement windows, two on each floor, likely dating to the 19th century, except for the first-floor window on the right, which is a modern plastic replacement in the original opening. The ground-floor window on the left has a segmental arched head. The addition at the right end has a 20th-century door below a two-light small-pane casement. The roof is hipped; the shaft of the left-hand stack has been removed. The rear elevation features two first-floor small-pane casement windows, probably from the 19th century, and a gabled attic dormer.

Inside, the room on the right-hand side of the ground floor shows exposed carpentry, largely consisting of re-used timbers. There is an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel. The left-hand room has replacement floor joists, and there is a 20th-century staircase. The roof was not inspected.

Local climate

Hodges receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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