Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Small house. 1 related planning application.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-ashlar-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Powder Mill Lane, Hildenborough, TN11 9AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 572 474
- Coordinates
- 51.20463, 0.2497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a small house dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with blue headers to the ground floor, and tile hanging above, with a peg-tile roof and a brick stack. The house is situated down a track off Powder Mill Lane, facing east, and is linked to a detached barn. The plan consists of two rooms wide, with a kitchen/parlour to the left, heated by a stack at the end, and a service room to the right. A rear outshut is likely integral to the property.
The two-storey facade is almost symmetrical, featuring a 2-window arrangement. A 19th-century plank front door is located slightly to the right of centre, sheltered by a flat porch hood. The left-hand stack projects and has corbelled brick coping and tile-hung offsets. The roof is gabled at the left end, half-hipped at the right end, and extends downwards as a catslide over the outshut. Windows are 19th-century casements with two panes per light, and segmental arched heads; the three windows to the left of the front door are 3-light, while those to the right are 2-light. A return on the right side features a door leading into the outshut and a small window.
The interior was not accessible during the survey in 1988.
Grove Cottage is a good example of a small, traditional house retaining an unspoiled exterior.
Local climate
Grove 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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