The Kitty Fisher is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House, public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Kitty Fisher
- WRENN ID
- secret-moulding-thistle
- 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, public house
- Address
- The Kitty Fisher, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06723, 0.57938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kitty Fisher is a house that was later used as a public house and converted back to residential use in 2016. It dates from the 17th century and was refronted in the mid-19th century. The building is timber framed with a three-bay lobby entrance, rendered on the ground floor and tile hung on the first floor. It features a half-hipped tiled roof with an off-centre chimneystack. The house has two storeys and three windows, primarily three-light casements, with a three-light canted bay on the right side of the ground floor. There are two doors; the left door has a small flat wooden weatherhood supported by restored brackets. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace with wooden seats and two gable-headed salt niches. The spine beam has a lamb's tongue stop in the centre and a run-out stop on the right-hand side.
Local climate
The Kitty Fisher 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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