Bear Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Inn. 12 related planning applications.

Bear Hotel

WRENN ID
lone-plinth-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Inn
Address
Bear Hotel, 97, High Street, West Malling, ME19 6NA
OS grid reference
TQ 680 577
Coordinates
51.29367, 0.40846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bear Hotel is an 18th century coaching inn, established in 1742, located on High Street in West Malling. The building features painted brick on the ground floor set on a deep painted plinth, while the first floor is roughcast. The roof is old and tiled, hipped to the right-hand side. The structure is two storeys high with five windows. The second floor includes four gabled dormers with casements. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane sash windows framed by moulded architraves, and the end windows are two-storey splayed bays. The ground floor has an additional off-centre 12-pane sash window and a wide doorcase with a cornice, alongside the end splayed bay. Inside, the hotel features ceiling beams with linear chamfers and lamb's tongue stops.

Local climate

Bear Hotel 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 lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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