Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage, shop.

Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique Shop

WRENN ID
peeling-terrace-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Cottage, shop
Address
Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique Shop, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 793 375
Coordinates
51.10885, 0.56013
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique Shop is a row of cottages with a shop on the right, dating from around 1700. The building has been clad in 19th-century materials and has had 20th-century alterations. It features a timber frame with brick cladding, painted on the front, and tile-hanging on the first floor and gables at each end. The roof is plain tiled and half-hipped, with two tall brick ridge stacks and an additional stack at the left end. There are three hipped dormers. The building has two storeys and attics, with an irregular arrangement of windows: seven on the first floor and four on the ground floor. To the right, there is a wide, single-storey projecting glazed shop front with a flat roof. A boarded door is located to the left in a flat-roofed glazed weather-porch, while a central panelled door with a flat hood above and a glazed door is recessed in the centre of the shop front. Inside, a substantial frame is visible, and the roof features a queen post side-purlin structure.

Local climate

Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique Shop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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