14, Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 2002. House, shop. 5 related planning applications.
14, Church Road
- WRENN ID
- sacred-timber-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 2002
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 14, Church Road, Southborough, TN4 0RX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 577 427
- Coordinates
- 51.16245, 0.25464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
14 Church Road is a house and shop built around 1800, with part of the rear range added later in the 19th century and a late 19th-century shopfront. The building is timber-framed and covered in tile-hanging, topped with a slate roof featuring end brick chimneystacks on the front range and another at the end of the rear range. The front range has three storeys and three windows, all of which are sash windows with narrow glazing bars and moulded wooden architraves. The central windows have 12 panes, while the end windows have 16 panes. The ground floor features a projecting shopfront with a tapering fascia and iron railings above, flanked by two square bays with roll mouldings and five large panes on either side. There is a recessed entrance with a panelled area above and double doors that are mainly glazed, with small panels at the base. The rear range is two storeys high and also tile-hung, with one sash window on the first floor and a penticed ground floor.
Inside, the shop has wide horizontal boards and internal windows. The rear ground floor includes a cambered brick fire surround and a plank ledged door on pintle hinges. There is a wooden half-winder staircase, and the first floor has a wooden fireplace with a 19th-century cast iron firegrate. In the attics, some lath and plaster is visible, along with a cupboard featuring L-hinges. Historically, the shop has operated as a grocer for many years.
Local climate
14, Church Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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