The Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House.
The Abbey
- WRENN ID
- wild-porch-willow
- 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
- Address
- The Abbey, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09528, 0.53093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbey is a building originally constructed as a cloth hall in the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame set on a red brick plinth and is tile hung. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles. There is a tall brick ridge stack located off-centre to the left, along with brick end stacks on the projecting right-hand wing. A gabled dormer is present on the left slope of the roof. The building has an L-plan layout with a projecting wing to the right, and it stands two storeys high with an attic. The front has an irregular arrangement of three windows, which are casements, and there is a two-storey gabled and plastered bay on the left return front of the right-hand wing.
Local climate
The Abbey 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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