Grooms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Grooms Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-banister-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grooms Cottage, Mill Lane, Platt, TN15 8PR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 607 558
- Coordinates
- 51.27947, 0.303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grooms Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Mill Lane in Platt. The building features a ground floor made of random rubble stone and a first floor that is painted weatherboard. It has a steep plain tiled roof with a central ridge stack. The cottage is two storeys high, with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, both positioned close to the center and fitted with modern casements. The entrance is at the north end in its original position, accompanied by a late 19th-century lean-to verandah on the right. Grooms Cottage is noted as a good example of a modest domestic building of traditional regional type.
Local climate
Grooms 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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