Whistler's is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A Medieval House, public house.
Whistler's
- WRENN ID
- odd-lead-storm
- 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, public house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Whistler's, Benenden Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 361
- Coordinates
- 51.09641, 0.56777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whistler's is a hall house that has been converted into a private residence, originally serving as a public house. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with red brick cladding on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right, with an end stack on the left and a small projecting end stack on the right. The structure is two storeys high, with an irregular arrangement of windows: three on the first floor and two on the ground floor, plus a single window in a catslide extension to the left. The rear has a catslide roof and a large hipped 20th-century extension in the center. The main entrance is now located in this extension. Inside, there is much heavy framing visible, including an original dais beam on the south side of the drawing room. The roof features a crown-post collar-purlin design with a large arch-braced truss.
Local climate
Whistler's 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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