The Woodcock Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Woodcock Public House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-latch-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Woodcock Public House, Woodcock Lane, Benenden, TN17 4HT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 313
- Coordinates
- 51.05297, 0.5762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woodcock Public House is a Grade II listed building located on Woodcock Lane in Benenden. Originally a cobbler's premises, it dates from 1621 but was mainly constructed in 1798 when it became an alehouse. The building has undergone 20th-century alterations and features a single-storey extension at the rear. It is weatherboarded with an old tiled roof and brick chimneystacks. The structure consists of two parallel ranges, stands two storeys tall, and has three windows. The end elevation includes casement windows and a simple doorcase. At the rear, there is a catslide roof. Inside, there is 18th-century framing, but there is likely a large brick open fireplace from the 17th century, which includes two salt niches and a wooden bressumer with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Woodcock Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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