Sissinghurst Park is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House.
Sissinghurst Park
- WRENN ID
- dark-garret-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sissinghurst Park, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 778 391
- Coordinates
- 51.12383, 0.54011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sissinghurst Park is a country house set within a landscaped garden, built in 1913, possibly by Mervyn Macartney. The house is constructed of red brick, featuring raised rusticated quoins, a band, and gauged heads. It has a deep coved eaves cornice beneath a plain tiled hipped roof, which includes nine hipped dormers. There is a tall brick stack at the center behind the ridge, with additional tall brick stacks on either side of the garden side wings, and single stacks at both ends.
The entrance front has flanking wings and is two storeys high with attics. A central two-storey porch features a stone triangular pediment above and a keyed rusticated round-arched entrance below. To the right, there is a single tall window that illuminates the staircase. The garden front also has projecting wings to the left and right, with a slightly irregular arrangement of windows in a 2-2-3-2-1 rhythm. The windows are lattice wood-framed cross-windows with casements. The central entrance consists of double panelled doors topped with a large wooden open segmental pediment on brackets and a wooden surround. Prominent downpipes with decorated hopper-heads are dated 1913. Inside, there is a three-flight rectangular newel staircase with salomonical balusters.
Local climate
Sissinghurst Park 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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