Church Gate Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Cottages. 6 related planning applications.
Church Gate Cottages
- 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
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Church Gate Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Ightham Road, Shipbourne, TN11 9PF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 591 522
- Coordinates
- 51.24734, 0.2795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A range of three cottages dating from the late 19th century, built in a Vernacular Revival style. The ground floor is of coursed rubble stone, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, with two ridge stacks and a rear end stack. The cottages are arranged in a T-shaped plan.
The south front displays a symmetrical facade, featuring two outer return gables with plain bargeboards and two semi-dormers, also with plain bargeboards between. The entrances to numbers 1 and 2 are recessed within the outer bays, each having a two-centred arched doorway and wooden supports for an overhang. Wooden balustrades are positioned between the supports. Number 3 is located in the T-wing and mirrors the design with a similar semi-dormer and a wooden doorcase in the southeast angle. It has a hipped tiled roof and a large ribbed brick end chimneystack to the north gable. The cottages are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Church Gate Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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