The Pest House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 11 related planning applications.
The Pest House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-truss-ridge
- 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
- The Pest House, Frythe Walk, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 775 356
- Coordinates
- 51.09269, 0.53438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pest House is a former pest house that has been converted into a house, dating back to the 16th century. It features a timber frame that is clad in red brick on the ground floor and tile hung on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled and has a ridge stack at the right end, which sits on a very large projecting breast with set-offs. The building has two storeys with an irregular arrangement of windows, including two on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all of which are wooden casements. There is a half-glazed door located in a glazed flat-roofed weather porch at the left end. Inside, a substantial timber frame is still visible.
Local climate
The Pest 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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