Willow House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Willow House
- WRENN ID
- tired-lead-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Willow House, Queen Street, Sandhurst, TN18 5HY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 284
- Coordinates
- 51.02723, 0.56244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow House is a house and shop dating from the 18th century. It has a timber frame that is clad in weatherboarding, except for the ground floor of the side elevation, which is made of brick. The building features a tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks. It is two storeys high and has four windows on the front range and two on the side. The front has 19th-century casement windows on the first floor, while the ground floor features a mid-19th-century shopfront with three square bays and two doorcases in between. The right side has a plank door with a flat hood supported by brackets, leading up four steps with an iron handrail. The left side elevation includes one 16-pane sash window and one metal casement window on the first floor, along with a large four-light casement window on the ground floor.
Local climate
Willow 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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