White Lion House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A Late C15 Cloth hall, shop.

White Lion House

WRENN ID
second-loft-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Cloth hall, shop
Address
White Lion House, High Street, Cranbrook, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3DF
OS grid reference
TQ 776 360
Coordinates
51.09637, 0.53528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Lion House is a building that originally served as a cloth hall and is now a shop. It dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century and has been clad in the 19th century, with alterations and extensions from the 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed, with red brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, while the rear is rendered. The roof is plain tiled and features a projecting gabled return wing to the left. There is an end stack to the right, 19th-century decorative bargeboards on the left-hand gable, and a hipped dormer on the left slope of the return wing. The building has two storeys and attics, with an irregular three-window front that includes glazing bar sashes and a full-width projecting later 20th-century shop front on the ground floor. At the rear, there is a two-storey half-hipped wing from the 18th century.

Inside, the ground floor has been cleared for a supermarket and features a boxed-in frame with iron supports. The timber frame is visible on the first floor and in the roof, which has a heavy scantling collar purlin roof, although no crown post is visible.

Local climate

White Lion House 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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