George Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.

George Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
George Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 776 360
Coordinates
51.09649, 0.53543
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

George Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been converted into an office. The building is timber-framed and features a ground floor clad in red brick, while the first floor is covered in tile hanging. It has a plain tiled roof with an end stack on the right side. The cottage is two storeys tall and has a two-window front. On the ground floor, to the right, there is a segment-headed window with a small square bay to the left. The first floor has casement windows, and there is a central boarded door set within a segment-headed surround.

Local climate

George 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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