Old Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Tavern
- WRENN ID
- late-moulding-saffron
- 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
- Old Tavern, Bodiam Road, Sandhurst, TN18 5LR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 790 278
- Coordinates
- 51.02184, 0.55119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tavern is a house located on Bodiam Road, dating from the early 19th century. The front of the building is faced with tiles, while the sides are finished in stucco. It features a hipped tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks. The structure is two storeys high and has three windows, primarily consisting of 16-pane sash windows set within moulded architraves. The central entrance has a doorcase with a moulded architrave and a flat hood above it. To the left, there is a one-storey extension made of painted brick, also with a hipped tiled roof.
Local climate
Old Tavern 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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