Branden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A {} Residential. 12 related planning applications.
Branden
- WRENN ID
- salt-pillar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- {}
- Address
- Branden, Biddenden Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 372
- Coordinates
- 51.10611, 0.57893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, likely a former cloth hall, is now a house. It dates back to the 16th century, with additions made around 1930 and 1955. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor clad in red brick and the first floor tile-hung, except for the north side which features exposed timber framing with plaster infilling. The upper floors are jettied. It has a plain tiled roof with two gable stacks to the north and a central ridge stack.
The house is two stories and has garrets, with an irregular window arrangement. To the east, there are three windows under a catslide roof, and one window in the garret to the north. The north side of the first floor has three windows, one of which is blocked with 16th-century mullions and surrounds. The ground floor on the north side has two windows. A single window is found in the south garret, two on the first floor, and three on the ground floor. All windows are iron casements. A boarded door with a snecked latch is located behind a 20th-century gabled porch on the south front. Another boarded door is present to the right of the central bread oven on the east front.
Inside, the ground floor contains a single-story weaving hall with a high, moulded beamed ceiling. The roof is a trussed side-purlin design, originally featuring a ridge piece which has since been removed.
Local climate
Branden 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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