The Sweet Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
The Sweet Shop
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-porch-rook
- 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, shop
- Address
- The Sweet Shop, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06717, 0.57953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sweet Shop is a house and shop located on The Street in Benenden, dating from around 1830, with alterations made in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of wood, designed to mimic masonry, and features a hipped tiled roof. It has two storeys and two windows. The mid-19th century sash windows have six panes, horns, and moulded architraves. A central projecting gabled porch is adorned with carved bargeboards, while a later 19th century projecting shopfront is situated on the right side.
Local climate
The Sweet Shop 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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- 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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