Little Baker's Cross Sheafe's House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Little Baker's Cross Sheafe's House
- WRENN ID
- open-niche-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Baker's Cross Sheafe's House, Bakers Cross, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3AG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 780 358
- Coordinates
- 51.0941, 0.54165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheafe's House, also known as Little Baker's Cross, is a house that has been divided, dating from the mid-18th century. The building features a part-framed structure with a red brick ground floor and weatherboarding above. It has a wooden modillion eaves cornice beneath a plain tiled roof, which has part projecting end stacks. The house stands three storeys tall, with sash windows on the first and second floors that have open boxes; the first-floor windows are adorned with projecting cornice mouldings above. The outer ground floor has octagonal bays topped with modillion cornices and flat heads, also featuring sash windows. The entrance to Little Baker's Cross is a central panelled door set within a Tuscan pilastered surround, complete with a cornice hood and panelled reveals. The entrance to Sheafe's House is located on the left-return front.
Local climate
Little Baker's Cross Sheafe's House 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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