The Crescent is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Row of houses. 1 related planning application.
The Crescent
- WRENN ID
- muted-truss-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- The Crescent, Brenchley Road, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7NZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 673 418
- Coordinates
- 51.15156, 0.39114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crescent is a row of four small houses built in the early 19th century, with late 19th to early 20th century bay windows. The houses are constructed of Flemish bond brick featuring blue headers on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile-hung. They have a slate roof and brick chimneys.
The range faces approximately south and is positioned along the road. The front block is narrow and single-depth, with rooms heated from axial stacks, and heated rear wings extending at right angles.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical five-window front that slightly curves inward towards the centre. The roof is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, with brick chimney stacks that have corbelled brick cornices. The leftmost house has an entrance on the left side, while the adjacent house to the right features a 19th-century panelled front door located to the right of centre, accompanied by a gabled porch supported by posts. The centre house has a half-glazed front door on the left side, and the rightmost house has a panelled 19th-century front door with a later porch on brackets. There are five first-floor four-pane plate glass sash windows and four ground-floor canted bay windows, which include plate glass four-pane sashes in the centre and two-pane sashes in the outer lights.
The interior has not been inspected. The Crescent is depicted in a late 19th-century photograph published in "A Victorian Pictorial Record of Brenchley and Matfield," where the bay windows are shown to have replaced earlier sashes.
Local climate
The Crescent 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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