Midland Bank Phillips' Outfitters is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1963. Shop.

Midland Bank Phillips' Outfitters

WRENN ID
brooding-hearth-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1963
Type
Shop
Address
Midland Bank Phillips' Outfitters, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 775 360
Coordinates
51.09642, 0.53446
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Midland Bank and Phillips' Outfitters is a pair of shops located on Cranbrook High Street. The building dates back to the 16th century, with 18th-century cladding. It features a timber-framed structure with a stuccoed first floor at the front and a plain tiled roof. A very tall ridge stack is positioned to the left of the center. The building has a continuous jetty over the ground floor, which has been underbuilt. It stands two stories high and has an irregular arrangement of five windows on the first floor, all of which are glazing bar sashes. The ground floor has two 20th-century double shop fronts with inset central doorways. Inside, there is a substantial timber frame with jowled posts and a side purlin queen strut roof. There are remains of a lower roof within the current 16th-century structure, which is intriguing but does not appear to be older than the main roof. Additionally, there is a very large stack that may have been inserted later.

Local climate

Midland Bank Phillips' Outfitters 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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