Ryecroft is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 4 related planning applications.
Ryecroft
- WRENN ID
- tattered-fireplace-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ryecroft, Chapel Lane, Benenden, TN17 4HQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 804 319
- Coordinates
- 51.05837, 0.57375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ryecroft is a house dating from the 16th century, which was later refronted and adapted into three cottages in the late 18th century. The house is timber-framed and has a ground floor clad in weatherboarding, with tile hanging above. The roof is tiled, with a brick ridge stack and an external brick chimneystack on the left-hand side. There is an outshut to the rear.
The house is two storeys high with three windows on the first floor, each with 16 panes. The ground floor windows are casements. Inside, original features from the 16th century remain, including roll-moulded beams, jowled posts, and floorboards. An 18th-century winder staircase is also present. According to records, part of the roof is dated 1763. The visible 18th-century roof structure lacks a purlin, featuring pegged rafters and no ridgepiece.
Local climate
Ryecroft sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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