Susan Dean Gifts is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House, shop.
Susan Dean Gifts
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-pilaster-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Susan Dean Gifts, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 776 361
- Coordinates
- 51.09679, 0.53576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Susan Dean Gifts is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the 17th century, with a front block that is dated 1736 above the side door. The building is plastered on the street side and features pilaster quoins and a wide eaves cornice. It has a pyramidally hipped slate roof with a flat-headed central dormer and a red brick stack at the rear. The building has three storeys and a regular two-window front, with the windows positioned towards the centre and featuring glazing bar sashes. The ground floor has a double early 20th-century shop front, which includes a blind-box above and an inset central half-glazed door. There is a doorway on the right side with the date 1736 inscribed above it. At the rear, there is a small timber-framed wing.
Local climate
Susan Dean Gifts 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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