Bruton House, Burgess Store and Goudhurst Antiques and Interiors is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House and shop. 4 related planning applications.

Bruton House, Burgess Store and Goudhurst Antiques and Interiors

WRENN ID
late-minaret-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
House and shop
Address
Bruton House, Burgess Store and Goudhurst Antiques and Interiors, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
OS grid reference
TQ 722 377
Coordinates
51.11312, 0.45952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bruton House, Burgess Store and Goudhurst Antiques and Interiors is a house and shop that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century and late 19th century. The building features a timber frame and is weather boarded above a painted brick ground floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys and an attic, including a mezzanine floor at the left end. The roof has a half-hipped section that steps down to the right end, which has a gambrel roof with gablets. There are stacks located at the centre left and at the rear.

The building displays various window styles, including a two-light leaded wooden casement on the ground floor to the left, a three-light leaded wooden casement below it, and three glazing bar sash windows on the first floor. There is also a multi-pane bow window to the left, featuring a cornice and a central glazing bar sash. The late 19th-century shop front on the right includes canted plate glass bays and a recessed glazed door, which is sheltered by a large canopy with valancing and supported by cast iron posts. To the left end, there is a half-glazed door, and a boarded door in the centre, both of which have flat hoods on brackets.

The right return of the building features a long canted two-storey wing, with glazing bar sashes on the main block and two dormer windows. The rear wing has wooden casements and boarded doors. The main structure is noted to have been a cloth hall, described as "a barn of a building" with massive crown posts, according to S T Wilson in "Goudhurst Pictorial History." The shop front was associated with William Chester Burgess, who operated from around 1840 to 1902.

Local climate

Bruton House, Burgess Store and Goudhurst Antiques and Interiors 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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