Bank Cottae Ferndale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Residential.

Bank Cottae Ferndale Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Residential
Address
Bank Cottae Ferndale Cottage, High Street, Birling
OS grid reference
TQ 677 603
Coordinates
51.31736, 0.40623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ferndale Cottage, also known as Bank Cottage, is a group of cottages dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. The west front features random and coursed galletted rubblestone, along with some brick and plaster, and there are indications of painted-over timbers. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, with an off-centre ridge stack located to the right. The building has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of three windows on both floors. There are central and left-hand doors, each with weather porches.

On the south front, the construction is similar, with random and coursed galletted rubblestone, some brick and plaster on the left, and a box-framed section with plaster infill on a random rubblestone plinth to the right. The hipped plain tiled roof has a hipped gable on the right side. This elevation features extremely irregular fenestration, with six windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all of which are casements, including one sliding window on the upper left. To the right, there is a one-storey extension with a hipped roof and a door located to the left of it.

Local climate

Bank Cottae Ferndale 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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