Vestry Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Vestry hall. 3 related planning applications.

Vestry Hall

WRENN ID
lone-screen-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Vestry hall
Address
Vestry Hall, Stone Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3HA
OS grid reference
TQ 776 361
Coordinates
51.09684, 0.53613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vestry Hall is a building from 1859 designed in a neo-Tudor style, located on the northeast side of Stone Street in Cranbrook. It features a chequered pattern of grey and red brick with stone window dressings. The roofs are plain tiled with a wooden eaves cornice. To the right, there is a three-storey octagonal tower topped with an octagonal cap and a decorative finial. The two-storey section to the left has a half-timbered gable with bargeboards above a wide octagonal oriel window on the first floor and a wide carriage entrance on the ground floor, flanked by subsidiary entrances. The front displays cross windows on the ground and first floors of the tower, with flanking single-light windows and shallower windows on the second floor, above a shallow parapet step. To the left, there is a Tudor-arched doorway leading to a room with a ribbed door.

The left return front features an angled corner with a hipped roof and a large transomed and mullioned window on the first floor, alongside a segment-headed window on the ground floor with two additional windows on the left return front. There are three large transom and mullion windows to the left, with a doorway below the central window, all flanked by very shallow buttresses that break back from the wall plane and merge into the plinth and wall under the gable, resembling flayed skin. To the left of the left return front, there is a cottage with a half-timbered return gable to the right, featuring mullioned windows on both the first and ground floors. The left side has a tile-hung jetty with two windows on the first floor and a boarded and ribbed door below.

Local climate

Vestry Hall 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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