Sissinghurst Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Sissinghurst Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-transept-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sissinghurst Castle Farmhouse, Biddenden Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 382
- Coordinates
- 51.11537, 0.58001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sissinghurst Castle Farmhouse is a mid-19th century farmhouse constructed with a red and blue brick chequer pattern and red brick dressings. The roof features plain and fishscale tiles arranged in bands. It has two tall brick stacks with heavy mouldings and oversailing cornices at each end of the main ridge, along with two additional stacks at the rear on the left side. The building has projecting cross-gables on the left and right, and a small gable to the left of the right-hand gable, all adorned with crowsteps and gablet mouldings over each step. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics, featuring one ogee-headed window with hexagonally-glazed casements in each of the left and right gables. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of four glazing bar sash windows on both floors below. The entrance is located in the left-hand projecting cross-wing, featuring double boarded doors set in round-arched surrounds. This building is included for its group value only.
Local climate
Sissinghurst Castle Farmhouse 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.
- 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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