Little Shepherds is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
Little Shepherds
- WRENN ID
- weathered-flint-violet
- 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
- Little Shepherds, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09554, 0.53058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Shepherds is a house located on the north side of Cranbrook High Street. It dates from the 17th century, with a front added in the mid-18th century and some alterations made in the early 19th century. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring a string course. It has a plain tiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice and end brick stacks. There are three flat-headed dormers placed irregularly on the roof. A brick chimney-breast is located on the west wall. The house has two storeys and attics, with a regular three-window front. The outer bays have two-storey canted and weatherboarded bays. The central entrance features a panelled door surrounded by a moulded architrave, topped with a fanlight and an open triangular pediment supported by brackets.
Local climate
Little Shepherds 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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