Whitewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Whitewell House
- WRENN ID
- stark-chancel-gorse
- 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
- Address
- Whitewell House, Whitewell Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2PR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 775 377
- Coordinates
- 51.1117, 0.53504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitewell House is a hall-house that has been converted into a residential home. It dates back to the early 16th century and was clad in the 18th century, with alterations made around 1910, possibly by the architect Mervyn Macartney. The building features a timber frame, with exposed timber framing on the ground floor to the west and red and blue brick on the sides. The first floor is tile-hung. It has low pitched twin span roofs, with chimney stacks that have projecting breasts on both the left and right sides. There is a wing extending towards the rear on the left.
The house is two storeys high and has a regular two-bay front, with two projecting two-storey bays. The windows are glazing bar casements with lattice glazing in the top lights. The central entrance is recessed and features a boarded door with a flat hood supported by brackets above. A similar hood is found over a glazed door on the right return front. Inside, there is a substantial timber frame, and the roof has been rebuilt. The posts are heavy and jowled. A staircase from around 1710 has likely been brought in, and there is an inserted stack. The interior also includes various fireplaces designed in a Neo-Georgian style by Macartney.
Local climate
Whitewell House 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 — 1 application
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