Bridge Conachar Bookshop the Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House, shop.
Bridge Conachar Bookshop the Homestead
- WRENN ID
- noble-pavement-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Bridge Conachar Bookshop the Homestead, Stone Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09578, 0.53724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead and Bridge Conachar Bookshop is a house and shop located on Cranbrook Stone Street, featuring an early 19th-century front that is attached to 18th-century buildings. The structure is rendered and sits on a plinth to the left. It has boxed eaves and a plain tiled hipped roof, with three brick stacks positioned behind the ridge. To the right, there is a recessed wing. The building is two storeys tall, with a regular façade on the left side that includes three windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with the two central windows on the ground floor being narrower and flanking a central panelled door that has a moulded surround and a transom light above. The right wing has one window with glazing bar sashes, and there is a glazed door to the left and a boarded door to the right.
Local climate
Bridge Conachar Bookshop the Homestead 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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