King's Bakers the Leather Box is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Shop.
King's Bakers the Leather Box
- WRENN ID
- secret-rafter-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- King's Bakers the Leather Box, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 776 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09658, 0.53505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Bakers and The Leather Box is a shop pair dating from the 16th century, with a front added in the 18th century. The building features a timber frame with stucco on the first floor. It has boxed eaves and a plain tiled roof, which includes a large brick chimney stack positioned behind the ridge to the right. There are three hipped dormers, and the structure is two storeys high with attics. The first floor has an irregular arrangement of three wide glazing bar sash windows. On the ground floor, the right side has a 19th-century double shop front with a central recessed half-glazed door and a fascia board above. The left side features another shop front with a half-glazed door at the far left and a fascia board above.
Local climate
King's Bakers the Leather Box 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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