Eggshell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House.
Eggshell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-kitchen-hawthorn
- 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
- Eggshell Cottage, Park Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 753 334
- Coordinates
- 51.07345, 0.50099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eggshell Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 19th-century cladding. It has a timber frame, with red brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled. The building features a baffle entry plan and stands two storeys high, with a ridge stack positioned to the left of centre. The front has three slightly irregular windows with casements. The entrance is located to the left of centre and is topped with a flat hood arch. At the rear, there is a deep catslide extension.
Local climate
Eggshell 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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