Bakehouse/Brewhouse About 10 Metres West of Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Bakery, brewhouse.

Bakehouse/Brewhouse About 10 Metres West of Down House

WRENN ID
bitter-buttress-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1989
Type
Bakery, brewhouse
OS grid reference
TQ 671 354
Coordinates
51.09389, 0.38532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a bakehouse and brewhouse located about 10 metres west of Down House. It dates from the 17th century and was altered and extended in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The ground floor is made of red brick, with an earlier character at its base, while the first floor is tile hung, featuring some weatherboarding. The rear elevations are also tile hung and weather boarded, topped with a plain tiled roof. The structure is two storeys high with a hipped roof and has lean-to outshots that project to the right and at the right return, along with a single storey range attached to the rear right.

On the first floor, there are wooden casement and mullioned openings, and on the ground floor, there is a shuttered window to the left and boarded doors to the right and in the side of the projecting outshot. Inside, the building features a clasped purlin and tie beam roof, with plastered framed partitions and a loft floor in the left end bay. Notable original internal features include a large brick fireplace or forge in the centre, with a stand for a copper nearby, and a two-tier bake oven to the right. The bakehouse is connected to Down House by a later pentice roofed walkway.

Local climate

Bakehouse/Brewhouse About 10 Metres West of Down House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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