18, Goods Station Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1987. Shop.
18, Goods Station Road
- WRENN ID
- carved-chapel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1987
- Type
- Shop
- OS grid reference
- TQ 585 397
- Coordinates
- 51.1355, 0.265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 18 Goods Station Road is a purpose-built ironmongers store, now functioning as a shop. It was constructed in 1888, with the shop front altered in the 20th century. The front is made of cast iron with glazed panels, while the other elevations are brick. The building features a hipped slate roof with a pitched roof light and eaves tiles, and it stands three storeys tall. The front elevation includes end rendered pilasters that extend through the first and second floors, topped with stylized brackets and ball finials. There is a wide cornice and fascia bands, and a continuous six-light window divided by pilasters with flat arches between. Inside, there is a central galleried atrium supported by twisted cast iron columns on the ground floor and plain cylindrical columns on the first floor. The open well has wooden two-tiered balustrading and boarded panelling, with a simple queen post type roof construction. This building is noted for its technological innovation as an early example of structural ironwork in a shop. The rear part of No 18 is not of special interest.
Local climate
18, Goods Station Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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