Crane Books is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Shop.
Crane Books
- WRENN ID
- open-jamb-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Crane Books, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 775 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09614, 0.53452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crane Books is a shop located on Cranbrook High Street, dating from the 17th century. The building has a timber front with a brick ground floor and an exposed frame on the first floor, featuring close studding and plaster infilling. It has a plain tiled roof that is half hipped to the right, and there is a central tall red brick chimney stack on the wing at the rear. The structure is two storeys high and has one central casement window on the first floor. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front with a glazed door positioned to the left. The building was likely truncated around the time the Congregational Chapel was built to the left in 1857.
Local climate
Crane Books 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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