General Stores and Attached Property is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Shop, house. 1 related planning application.
General Stores and Attached Property
- WRENN ID
- drifting-bracket-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- General Stores and Attached Property, Back Road, Sandhurst, TN18 5JS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 800 282
- Coordinates
- 51.0257, 0.56655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a shop and house known as General Stores and attached Property, dating from the mid-19th century. The store features a ground floor made of red brick in Flemish bond, with a weatherboarded first floor and a slate roof adorned with scrolled bargeboards. It is two storeys high and has two windows, which contain 16-pane sash windows, along with a late 19th-century shopfront. The adjoining house also has a ground floor of red brick and a weatherboarded first floor, topped with a slate roof. This house is two storeys tall and has three windows, all of which are 16-pane sashes. The central entrance has a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets and a six-panelled door. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
General Stores and Attached Property 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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