Walnut Trees is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.

Walnut Trees

WRENN ID
stubborn-chamber-juniper
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
Period
Medieval
Address
Walnut Trees, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2JL
OS grid reference
TQ 795 374
Coordinates
51.10851, 0.56287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Trees is a 15th-century priest's house that has been truncated and incorporated into a larger house during the 18th century. The building features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. It has a plain tiled roof with a very large projecting brick stack on the left and another stack on the ridge to the right. The house is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window arrangement with glazing bar sashes. The entrance is located in a lean-to extension to the left of the chimney breast, featuring a boarded door. Behind this, there is a two-storey block that is panelled. This house includes part of the original Priest's House, which was attached to the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. A milkhouse associated with the property was suppressed in 1550 and was finally demolished in 1840.

Local climate

Walnut Trees sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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