Little Charity is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.

Little Charity

WRENN ID
keen-eave-auburn
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
Address
Little Charity, Swattenden Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PS
OS grid reference
TQ 767 344
Coordinates
51.08202, 0.52251
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Charity is a former hall-house, now a house, dating from the early 15th century, with 18th-century cladding and 20th-century extensions. The building features a timber front on a red brick plinth, with weatherboarded cladding and tile-hanging on the first floor to the west. It has plain tiled hipped roofs and a hall-house plan, standing at 1½ storeys. There is a ridge stack to the right and gabled semi-dormers to the left and on the south end. The front has an irregular arrangement of two windows with casements. To the right, there is a boarded door with a gabled hood supported by curved brackets. To the left, there is a 1½ storey extension with two gabled dormers and a boarded door. A gabled porch is located to the right at the south, flanked by a low gabled extension. Inside, heavy framing is visible, along with an inserted brick stack that has a replaced wooden bressummer and heavily jowled posts. The roof features a uniform scantling with collars and smoke-blackening.

Local climate

Little Charity 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 2007
  • 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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