Hilltop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Cottage.
Hilltop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-landing-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hilltop Cottage, Tibbs Court Lane, Brenchley and Matfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 668 412
- Coordinates
- 51.14599, 0.38344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hilltop Cottage is a small cottage, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It has a framed construction clad in weatherboarding, with the left end wall partially rebuilt in brick. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and there is a brick chimney stack.
The cottage faces west and is situated on a corner site. It features a narrow two-cell plan with a central entrance. On the left side (north), there is a kitchen/parlour heated by an end stack, while the right side contains an unheated room. The size of the cottage appears to be influenced by the awkwardness of the site.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an almost symmetrical three-bay front. It includes a 20th-century central glazed front door with a sloping corrugated iron hood. There are two first-floor windows, which are 19th or 20th-century two-light casements with six panes per light. The ground floor has a similar window on the right and a three-light casement on the left.
The interior has not been inspected. Hilltop Cottage is part of a group of small cottages that form an artisan hamlet in Tibbs Court Lane.
Local climate
Hilltop Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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