John's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House.
John's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-plaster-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- John's Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09581, 0.53155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
John's Cottage is a hall-house that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 15th century and is clad in 18th-century materials. The structure is timber framed, with painted brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. It features a very steep plain tiled roof that is hipped to the left, with a low brick stack positioned off-ridge to the front right. The building has two storeys and two windows on each floor, along with a half-glazed door to the left. Inside, there is a substantial timber frame with heavily jowled posts and chamfered floor beams. The cottage is set back from the street line and is partially obscured by buildings on either side.
Local climate
John's 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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