Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Commercial building.
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets
- WRENN ID
- waning-barrel-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets, High Street, Cranbrook, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3DN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 775 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09595, 0.53358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets is a building located on the south side of High Street in Cranbrook. Originally constructed in the late 16th century to early 17th century, it was clad in the 18th century. This former cottage row has been converted into offices and shops during the late 1980s. The building features a timber frame with stucco cladding on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor. It has boxed eaves beneath a plain tiled roof, which is half hipped to the left. There is a stack at the left end and a large stack to the rear, positioned left of center. The roof includes three hipped dormers and a continuous jetty supported by a moulded bressummer, with a tiled pentice above the ground floor. The structure is two storeys high with attics and has a five-window front. To the left, there are four two-storey canted bays with glazing bar sashes, and a single casement window on the first floor at the extreme right. There are paired boarded doors to the right of the left-hand bay, and single doors to the left of the right-hand bay and at the right end, which is in a blocked former carriage entrance.
Local climate
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
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