The Forest is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Forest
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hall-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Forest, Nineveh Lane, Benenden, TN17 4LG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 780 326
- Coordinates
- 51.06515, 0.53959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forest is a late 16th-century house, originally a farmhouse, located on Nineveh Lane, Benenden. It is a timber-framed building with plaster infill set on a sandstone plinth. The framing is arranged in square panels. The roof is a half-hipped design covered with modern tiles, featuring a late 16th-century ribbed brick chimneystack at the centre. An outshut adjoins the rear of the house. The building is two storeys high with attics in the gable end, and has three windows. The windows are 20th-century casements. A central doorcase is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. The interior remains unexamined. The house was refenestrated in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Forest 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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