Hughenden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House, shop.
Hughenden
- WRENN ID
- keen-spire-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Hughenden, the Plain, Goudhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 721 376
- Coordinates
- 51.11253, 0.45835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hughenden is a house and shop that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building features a timber frame and is tile hung on the first floor, while the ground floor is constructed of red brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. It consists of two parallel ranges, with the earlier range likely serving as a hall and lacking a cross-wing, which is fronted by a 17th or 18th-century addition.
The entrance front, which is the left return facing the roadside, has two storeys beneath a half-hipped roof, with stacks located on both the left and right sides, and an oversailing hip of the cross-wing at the centre right. On the first floor, there are four three-light leaded metal casements, while the ground floor features four leaded metal and wooden casements. The central entrance door is made up of six panels and is framed by a moulded pilaster surround with an open pediment.
The right return, which faces the roadside, has a glazing bar sash window above a glazed door leading into the front range. The rear range also has a half-hipped roof, with leaded casements in the garret and on the first floor, and three large 20th-century mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor, one of which is located in a catslide outshot to the right. A cross-wing roof at the rear connects the two ranges.
Local climate
Hughenden 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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