The Old Cottage the Workhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Poorhouse, cottage.
The Old Cottage the Workhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-sandstone-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Poorhouse, cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage the Workhouse, Common Road, Ightham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 587 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27854, 0.27455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Workhouse and the Old Cottage is a former poorhouse located on Ightham Common Road, dated 1753. The building features coursed rubble stone with red and blue brick quoins, a band, and dressings. It has a plain tiled roof with rear stacks positioned to the center and left. The structure is two storeys high, with three windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, all of which are casements with diamond lattice in the center and right. To the right, there is a gabled 19th-century porch that has a boarded door.
Attached to the right end is an early 19th-century cottage, also made of coursed and galletted rubble stone with red and blue brick quoins, a band, and dressings. This cottage features a brick cornice and a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with a rear stack. It is also two storeys tall, with two ground floor windows in segment-headed surrounds, and a central entrance that has a segment-headed surround and a boarded door.
Local climate
The Old Cottage the Workhouse 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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