Spar Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House.
Spar Stores
- WRENN ID
- mired-hammer-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spar Stores, Queen Street, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 284
- Coordinates
- 51.02712, 0.56279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spar Stores is a house built around 1820. It has a timber frame covered in weatherboarding, sitting on a brick plinth, and features a hipped slate roof with end brick chimneystacks. The building is two storeys high and has two windows, which are 16-pane sashes. The central entrance has a doorcase with a flat hood, reeded pilasters with paterae, and a six flush panelled door. There is a shop attached to the left side of the building that was added in the 20th century.
Local climate
Spar Stores 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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