Little Sponden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 6 related planning applications.

Little Sponden

WRENN ID
unlit-cobble-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 July 1993
Type
House
Address
Little Sponden, Sponden Lane, Sandhurst, Tn 18 5nr, TN18 5NR
OS grid reference
TQ 793 293
Coordinates
51.03549, 0.55649
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Sponden is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a three-bay lobby entrance design and is constructed with a timber frame, covered in weatherboarding on a brick plinth, with a brick ground floor on the side elevation. The roof is half-hipped and covered with old tiles, and there is an off-central brick chimney stack. The house has two storeys and attics in the gable end, with four casement windows. A large 19th-century wooden and brick weather porch is also present. Inside, there are two bread ovens.

Local climate

Little Sponden 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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