Hartley House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Workhouse, old people's home.
Hartley House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-mantel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Workhouse, old people's home
- Address
- Hartley House, Hartley Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 761 350
- Coordinates
- 51.08766, 0.51341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartley House is a former workhouse, now serving as an old people's home, built around 1840 by Whichcord & Walker. The building is constructed from Tonbridge stone ashlar and features slate hipped roofs with gable parapets. A gabled crosswing projects from the center of the taller gable parapetted central block. It has tall brick stacks on gablets and is two storeys high. The front has nine windows arranged in a regular pattern, with three bay wings flanking a three bay central block. The windows include shallow tripartite sashes with keyed heads in the bays, and large tripartite sashes with keyed heads in the central block, which also features a large central pointed arch in a chamfered surround. The building has two-thirds glazed doors blocking an opening.
Local climate
Hartley 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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