Chestnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. A Early 19th century House.
Chestnut House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-lead-acorn
- 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
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- Chestnut House, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 809 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06695, 0.58092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut House, formerly known as Benenden Post Office, is a house dating from around 1840. The front elevation is weatherboarded and features a hipped slate roof with an end cemented chimneystack. The side elevation is constructed of red brick with grey headers arranged in a diaperwork pattern, while the first floor is tile hung. The rear is partially weatherboarded. The building stands two storeys tall and has three windows, along with two flat-roofed dormers. On the first floor, there are three 16-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves, with blind boxes on the end windows. The ground floor includes a nearly flat wooden verandah supported by four cast iron columns. There are three 16-pane sash windows in reeded architraves, and the central doorcase features a rectangular fanlight above a six-panelled door, with the top four panels being glazed.
Local climate
Chestnut House 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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