The Freight is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.
The Freight
- WRENN ID
- knotted-lancet-sable
- 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 Freight, Freight Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 775 351
- Coordinates
- 51.08788, 0.53433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Freight is a former cloth hall that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and a restoration in the early 20th century. The building features a timber frame and is clad in red brick on the ground floor, while the first floor has tile hanging. It has a plain tiled roof with a large stack at the rear and an end projecting stack on the left side. There are two hipped dormers located in the center and right of the roof. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with five on the first floor and four on the ground floor, featuring 20th-century wood-framed transom and mullion diamond lattice casements. A central hipped single-storey porch has a boarded door set in a Tudor arched surround, flanked by upright windows. At the rear, there are large two-storey wings. Inside, there is substantial evidence of the timber frame structure.
Local climate
The Freight 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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