The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House, outbuilding. 5 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
broken-cobalt-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1990
Type
House, outbuilding
Address
The Cottage, Nizels Lane, Hildenborough, TN11 8NU
OS grid reference
TQ 545 503
Coordinates
51.23118, 0.21257
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a small house and adjoining outbuilding, likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with a peg-tile roof and brick stacks. The house, which may have originally included stabling, faces approximately east and has an L-shaped plan. The main block consists of two cells with a central entrance and a rear right wing. The left room of the main block is heated by an end stack, while the wing is also heated from an end stack. The coach-house is located at the right end of the house.

The exterior features a two-storey house and a single-storey outbuilding. The house has a gable-ended roof, while the coach-house has a hipped roof. The front elevation of the house is slightly asymmetrical with three bays, including a central 19th-century plank front door. The ground floor openings have crank-arched brick voussoirs, which are painted white. The left ground floor window is a 16-pane 19th-century sash, and the right window is larger with small panes and iron glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two 16-pane 19th-century sashes on the left and right, and a two-light casement window in the centre, which is either 19th or 20th century, set in a reduced embrasure that may have replaced a loft opening. The coach-house to the right features a pair of 20th-century full-height metal doors on the left and a small doorway with a cranked arch, brick voussoirs, and a plank door. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • 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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