Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ashlar-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Woodgate Road, Ryarsh
- OS grid reference
- TQ 675 601
- Coordinates
- 51.31586, 0.40238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame and weatherboarding. It has a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped on the left side, with a central ridge stack and a catslide roof at the rear, which faces the road. The cottage is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with one window on the first floor to the right and others located on the side fronts. There are two early 20th-century half-glazed doors, one at each end of the cottage. Additionally, there is a 19th-century lean-to structure on the ground floor to the south.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage 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 lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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