The Old Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Manor House
- WRENN ID
- inner-ember-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Manor House, Cranbrook Road, Benenden, TN17 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 805 330
- Coordinates
- 51.06879, 0.57617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manor House is a house with an east wing dating to the late 15th century. It is a Wealden hall-house which was refaced in the 19th century and restored in the 20th, with a C20 L-wing added to the west. The original building is faced with tiles laid on a red brick plinth. The first floor of the window bays at each end oversails on projecting floor joists and brackets. It has sprocket eaves, and the central portion between the oversailing window bays projects forward on curved braces and a central bracket. The steeply pitched tiled roof has gablets, and a late 16th-century cruciform chimney stack is situated centrally. There are two storeys and four windows. The windows are mullioned, with diamond-shaped or small square leaded panes. The doorcase has a flat hood on brackets. An external stone chimney stack is located at the rear. The C20 L-wing to the west is timber-framed with plastered infill and a tiled roof with a brick chimney stack. It has two storeys and attics, with five windows and two hipped dormers. The casements have leaded lights, and the left gable is tile-hung. Inside the east wing, features include an original hall beam, two original service entrances, and an octagonal moulded crown post. Photographs are held by the National Buildings Record.
Local climate
The Old Manor House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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