Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. Commercial.

Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham

WRENN ID
tangled-newel-gilt
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 1952
Type
Commercial
Address
Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham, the Corner House, Stone Street, Cranbrook, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3HE
OS grid reference
TQ 776 360
Coordinates
51.09649, 0.53575
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Anderson and Sons Butchers, the George Hotel, and Harper and Hurlingham, also known as The Corner House, is a building located on Stone Street in Cranbrook. Originally a cloth hall from around 1400, it underwent alterations in the 16th century, extensions in the 17th century, and was refronted to the left in the 19th century. The building is timber framed, with a red brick ground floor and decorative tile-hanging on the first floor, except for two brick bays at the entrance on the left. It features a wooden eaves cornice and a plain tiled half-hipped roof, with two tall brick stacks on the left and a low stack at the rear right of center.

The structure has two storeys and attics, with a regular eleven-window front that includes glazing bar sashes with open boxes. On the left, there is a double shop front with a tiled surround and an inset off-centre doorway leading to a glazed entrance, topped by a deep fascia board. To the right is a 19th-century double bowed shop front, featuring a central glazed door with an oval transom light, flanked by a later 19th-century shop front with another central glazed door. The central and left sections have six glazing bar sashes, with panelled doors to the right of the leftmost window and to the left of the fifth window from the left. Above this section is a balcony with cast iron decorative railings and a plastered cove beneath.

Inside, the first-floor room is now subdivided but was used until the 19th century for the Justices' Sessions. A notable feature is a two-flight timber staircase from around 1670, which has square newel posts, a flat-topped rail, and short bulbous turned balusters.

Local climate

Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham 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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