Crit Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.
Crit Hall
- WRENN ID
- nether-portal-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crit Hall, Cranbrook Road, Benenden, TN17 4EU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 787 334
- Coordinates
- 51.07297, 0.55015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crit Hall is an early 19th-century house located end on to Cranbrook Road. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers set on a cemented plinth. The building features a hipped slate roof with cemented chimneystacks. It stands two storeys tall with attics and has three windows across the front. A wide eaves cornice adds to its architectural detail, and there are two flat roof dormers. The first floor is adorned with 8-pane sash windows that have rubbed brick voussoirs, while the ground floor features 16-pane sash windows, also with rubbed brick voussoirs. The central entrance includes a doorcase with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets, leading to a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed. The side elevation has two windows and one dormer.
Local climate
Crit Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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