Bishopsdale is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. A C17 House.
Bishopsdale
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-roof-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bishopsdale, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 848 350
- Coordinates
- 51.08497, 0.63731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishopsdale is a house that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, featuring a parlour wing from the 18th century. The building has been refronted in red brick on the ground floor and is hung with fishscale tiles on the first floor. It has a tiled roof topped with tall brick chimneystacks. The front elevation, which is an 18th-century addition, consists of two storeys and attics with three windows. The roof is half hipped and includes three hipped dormers. There are three 20th-century casement windows. The ground floor features two 20th-century bays connected by a tiled verandah supported by two elaborate wooden posts. Behind this, there is an earlier six-panelled door. The earlier rear wing has three 20th-century casements and a pentice. Additionally, there is a 19th-century two-storey extension at the angle of the left side. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Bishopsdale 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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