The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A 19th century House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-cellar-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 795 375
- Coordinates
- 51.10916, 0.56401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house, formerly a vicarage, built in 1843 by Whichcord and Walker. It is constructed of ashlar with boxed eaves and has a low-pitched, pyramidally-hipped slate roof. The east front has a regular three-window arrangement. The first floor features glazing bar sashes; the ground floor has a wide hipped bay with a tripartite window flanking a central porch with a glazed door. Raised panels extend to the eaves on bays flanking the centre of the east front. The south front has a three-window first floor with glazing bar sashes, the rightmost window being tripartite. The ground floor features two square hipped bays flanking a smaller window.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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