The Chestnuts 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 Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
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- 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 Chestnuts, Talbot Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4NH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 755 296
- Coordinates
- 51.03926, 0.50228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a house built around 1800. It features red and blue chequered brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a hipped roof that extends to the left and right, with chimney stacks on both sides. The windows are regularly arranged, with three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, both having flat arched heads. The central entrance door has six panels and is topped by a rectangular fanlight with chinoiserie tracery, all set within a moulded surround that includes a flat dentilled cornice.
Local climate
The Chestnuts 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 2018
- 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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