Cobblestones the Homestead the Red Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Cobblestones the Homestead the Red Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-rood-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cobblestones the Homestead the Red Cottage, Boneashe Lane, Platt, TN15 8NW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 624 567
- Coordinates
- 51.28682, 0.3286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cobblestones, The Homestead, and The Red Cottage are a group of three former cottages, originally seven, dating from the 14th to 17th centuries. The buildings are arranged in an L-shaped plan that follows the curve of the road. The Homestead is located at the eastern end of the row, forming the lower bar of the L. It features late 18th century brown random rubble stone with some flint galletting and has a plain tiled ridge roof. The building is two storeys high with irregularly placed casement windows, including those on the ground floor set in segment-headed surrounds. There is a projecting wooden oriel on the ground floor facing the road, and the entrance is on the east side of the wing.
Cobblestones, dated 1784, is constructed of brown random rubble stone with the same flint galletting and has a plain tiled roof with a stepped ridge. It is also two storeys high with an irregular two-window front featuring casement windows, again with segment-headed surrounds on the ground floor. A later addition is the central hipped porch.
The Red Cottage may have originally been a 16th century hall-house but has undergone significant alterations. It features a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor, with the southern ground floor roughcast. Some exposed framing is visible on the ground floor. The roof is hipped and plain tiled, and the building is two storeys tall with irregularly placed small wooden casements, including those on the right of the ground floor in segment-headed surrounds. There is a modern lean-to porch with a tiled hood to the left of centre.
Local climate
Cobblestones the Homestead the Red 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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