Stable Building About 50 Metres East of Matfield House is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1954. Stable. 1 related planning application.
Stable Building About 50 Metres East of Matfield House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-arch-tarn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1954
- Type
- Stable
- Address
- Stable Building About 50 Metres East of Matfield House, TN12 7JT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 658 419
- Coordinates
- 51.1525, 0.37013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable building, located about 50 meters east of Matfield House, is likely from 1736 and was built at the same time as Matfield House and other structures in the stable courtyard. The building features Flemish bond brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, topped with a peg-tile roof.
The stable is rectangular in shape and faces west, forming the western boundary of the courtyard. A 19th-century outshut has been added to the south end. It stands two stories tall with a half-hipped roof at both ends, and the eaves of the roof project outward. There is a moulded fascia at the first-floor level.
The front of the building is asymmetrical with six windows. On the first floor, there are five two-light casement windows, each with six panes per light, and a similar window on the left side of the ground floor. The approximately central entrance features sliding doors with flush panels, and to the right of this entrance is a doorway with six fielded panels.
On the left (north) side, there is an 18th-century plank door with a small-pane fixed window next to it, along with a small-pane sliding sash window on the first floor and a 20th-century one-light window alongside. Above these, there is a two-light opening, with one light glazed. The right (south) side has a lean-to roof over the outshut, with brick cogging below the eaves, a two-light casement window with square leaded panes, and probably a 20th-century two-leaf plank door in the center. There is also a three-light casement window on the first floor.
The interior has not been inspected but may hold some interest.
Local climate
Stable Building About 50 Metres East of Matfield House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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