Penfolds is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Penfolds
- WRENN ID
- lesser-stair-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penfolds, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09538, 0.52998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penfolds is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Cranbrook High Street. It features a timber frame, with brick cladding on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled and has an end stack on the left side. There is a central gabled dormer, and the building has two storeys plus an attic. The front has an irregular arrangement of windows, including a 20th-century casement window on the first floor and a 20th-century flat-headed canted bay window on the ground floor to the left. To the right, there is a half-glazed door.
Local climate
Penfolds 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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