Clevelands is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A C15 House.

Clevelands

WRENN ID
watchful-remnant-furze
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
Clevelands, Green Lane, Benenden
OS grid reference
TQ 835 348
Coordinates
51.08396, 0.61886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clevelands is a house that likely dates back to the 15th century and was originally an open hall-house. It features a late 16th-century inserted chimneystack and has been altered in the 19th century, with a 20th-century rear wing added. The structure appears to be two-thirds of a Wealden house. It is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, although the right side elevation has rat trap band brickwork. The roof is steeply pitched and renewed with tiles, featuring a stepped late 16th-century chimneystack; the right side is hipped with a gablet, while the left side has a gable. The first floor of the southernmost window bay oversails on brackets, and the remainder of the eaves also oversails on brackets. The house has two storeys and four windows, all of which are casement windows.

Inside, there is a large 18th-century open fireplace accompanied by two spice cupboards. The interior features a roll-moulded spine beam, with the other beams being 19th-century copies. There is some 16th-century panelling and two early 17th-century cupboard doors, along with three octagonal crown posts.

Local climate

Clevelands sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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