Halfway House Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Halfway House Public House

WRENN ID
scarred-sentry-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
Public house
Address
Halfway House Public House, Horsmonden Road, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7AX
OS grid reference
TQ 682 413
Coordinates
51.14684, 0.40356
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Halfway House Public House is a public house dating from around the mid 19th century, with a likely earlier rear wing. The main block is constructed of Flemish bond brick featuring blue headers, while the rear wing is tile-hung. An adjoining block at the east end is weatherboarded, and the building has a peg-tile roof with brick stacks.

The building faces south and is positioned just below the road. The main block consists of two rooms wide, with a central entrance and end stacks. The rear wing is set at right angles and has an axial stack. There is also a single-storey block at the right (east) end, which is likely a former outbuilding.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front. The main range has gabled ends. The central front door is half-glazed and features a round-headed rubbed red brick arch above it. There are two ground floor and two first floor 16-pane sash windows from the mid 19th century, with plain panelled shutters on the ground floor. The block at the right (east) end is slightly set back and has a roof that runs at right angles to the main range. This block includes a 20th-century door on the south end and three 20th-century casement windows on the right return.

Inside, the main block was undergoing internal alterations at the time of the survey in 1989, but a chimney-piece from the mid 19th century remains at the left end.

Local climate

Halfway House Public House 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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