Old Printers House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House, office. 3 related planning applications.

Old Printers House

WRENN ID
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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, office
Address
Old Printers House, Stone Street, Cranbrook, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3HF
OS grid reference
TQ 777 360
Coordinates
51.0962, 0.53663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Printers House is a house that was later used as a shop and is now a house and office. It dates from the 16th century and was clad in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor at the rear of the left return front. The upper part features exposed framing with plaster infilling above the red brick at the rear. The roof is plain tiled, half-hipped to the left, and half-hipped over the rear wing. There is a tall red brick stack to the left behind the gable.

The building has two storeys, with a jetty below the weatherboarding. On the southwest (street) front, there is one window on the first floor, flanked by two 18th-century flat-bowed shop fronts beside a glazed door below. The left return front features an 18th-century curved shop front with two casements above. There is one window on both floors to the left, with a boarded door at the entrance on the left. At the rear, there is a 17th-century flat wooden oriel with a pentice hood over it on the first floor, flanked by two three-light casements. Below, there are two casements with a boarded door to the left, and two blocked windows under the gable.

Local climate

Old Printers House 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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