Starling's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Starling's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-loggia-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Starling's Cottage, Golford Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 796 363
- Coordinates
- 51.09819, 0.56483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Starling's Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located on the south side of Cranbrook Golford Road. It features a timber-framed structure with exposed framing and rendered infilling on the brick ground floor at the front. The first floor is tile hung on the sides, and the cottage has a plain tiled roof that is half hipped to the right. An end stack projects to the left with tumbled set-offs. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a single central flat-headed dormer. There are two windows with diamond lattice casements and a boarded door with a centre light to the right. A later 20th-century extension is present on the right side. Inside, the cottage has a full frame with jowled posts and an end stack featuring a wooden bressummer.
Local climate
Starling's Cottage 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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