Whites is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 7 related planning applications.
Whites
- WRENN ID
- inner-panel-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whites, Balcombes Hill, Goudhurst, TN17 2QR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 723 374
- Coordinates
- 51.11018, 0.46088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whites is a house dating to 1905, built by Davis and Leavey, builders of Goudhurst. It is constructed of red brick with painted wooden details and has a plain tiled roof. The design is in the Neo-Georgian style.
The front of the house has two storeys, with a plinth, brick quoins, and a moulded modillion eaves cornice to the three-span roof. A central open pediment-shaped gable is flanked by projecting hipped wings with stacks to the left and right; a further stack is located to the rear centre left (on the garden front cross-range), and a projecting outbuilding is situated to the left. A central stair window with a narrow glazing bar sash is located on the first floor to the left, while two glazing bar sashes are present on each floor to the right. The central entrance features a panelled door within a moulded brick surround. A single-storey range projects to the left, and to the left return is a catslide outshut to the main range. The side elevations are three-bay, featuring glazing bar sashes with louvred shutters.
The garden front presents a formal elevation with two storeys and an attic, again with a plinth, brick quoins, and a moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice to the hipped roof, incorporating three hipped dormers. The fenestration is regular, with three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all fitted with louvred shutters. A central half-glazed door is set within a doubled-columned porch with a cornice.
The interior, as revealed in sales particulars, includes an oak-panelled entrance hall, a panelled dining room, and a turned baluster dog-leg staircase.
Local climate
Whites receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2010
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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