The Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. School, church.
The Church House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-sandstone-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- School, church
- Address
- The Church House, Carriers Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 361
- Coordinates
- 51.09703, 0.53676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church House is a 16th-century school building located on Carriers Road in Cranbrook. It features a timber frame that is clad in red brick on the ground floor, while the first floor showcases exposed close studding with plaster infilling. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right and half hipped to the left, with a stack positioned behind the ridge towards the rear, slightly to the right of center.
The building has two gabled dormers, one centrally located and another lower to the left. It stands two storeys tall with attics, and there is a single storey and attic section to the left. The windows are arranged irregularly, with iron casement windows comprising three on the ground floor and two above to the right. To the front left, there is a lean-to with a catslide roof beyond, and a 19th-century extension featuring large hexagonal lozenge lattice glazing set in double pointed-arched casement window surrounds. A gable is present to the left, and there are boarded doors located at the extreme right and in the right re-entrant face of the projecting catslide.
Local climate
The Church 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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