Tilsden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Farmhouse, house. 5 related planning applications.
Tilsden
- WRENN ID
- quartered-barrel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- Tilsden, Tilsden Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 782 351
- Coordinates
- 51.08793, 0.5432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, with 19th-century cladding. The house is timber framed, with a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. It has a plain tiled, half-hipped roof with a tall red brick stack to the left of the centre and a small projecting stack to the right. The house is two storeys and has garrets. The front has a slightly irregular three-window arrangement, with wide roofed 19th-century lattice casement windows. The entrance is through a panelled door within a 19th-century gabled weather porch to the left of the centre. 19th-century wings extend to the rear.
Local climate
Tilsden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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