The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Bakery. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- weathered-quartz-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Bakery
- Address
- The Old Bakery, St David's Bridge, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09542, 0.53771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a late 17th-century house and cottage, originally with a bakery to the right. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor clad in red brick and the first floor weatherboarded to the right, and weatherboarded to the left. It has plain tiled, half-hipped roofs, with a large brick stack behind the ridge to the right, and three hipped dormers to the right.
The left block is two storeys and a garret, featuring one window front. It includes wooden casements on the first floor, a shop front with glazing bars on the ground floor, and a glazed door with a flat hood. The right block is two storeys and attics, with an irregular arrangement of three first-floor windows and five ground-floor windows. The ground floor has 20th-century shop windows to the left and right of centre, flanking two windows and panelled doors to the right. Two right-hand first-floor windows and a single right-hand ground-floor window are glazing bar sashes, while the others are casements. It has a half-glazed door.
Local climate
The Old Bakery 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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