Lavender Cottage and Buddleia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Cottage pair. 1 related planning application.
Lavender Cottage and Buddleia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tower-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage pair
- Address
- Lavender Cottage and Buddleia Cottage, Church Hill, Plaxtol, TN15 0QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 602 535
- Coordinates
- 51.2586, 0.29519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage and Buddleia Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the early 18th century, with an extension added to the right in the 19th century. The ground floor is constructed of coursed galletted rubble stone, while the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is hipped with plain tiles, featuring a catslide extension to the right and an eaves cornice. A stack is located on the south end of the building, and there are four modern dormers. The front of the cottages is irregular, with a three-window appearance. The first floor has four windows, including casements and a tripartite glazing bar sash window to the left. The ground floor has three glazing bar sash windows, a tripartite window to the left and a segment-headed casement window to the left. There are two boarded doors, positioned either side of the central ground floor window. A datestone, inscribed B R1724H, is located to the left of the right-hand door.
Local climate
Lavender Cottage and Buddleia Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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