April Cottage Tile Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
April Cottage Tile Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-cobalt-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- April Cottage Tile Cottage, Rye Road, Sandhurst, TN18 5PQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 814 279
- Coordinates
- 51.02267, 0.58573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage and Tile Cottage are a pair of cottages dating to the 17th century, which were refronted in the early 19th century and refenestrated in the 20th century. The front elevation is tile-hung, while the left side has a ground floor of red brick and a first floor that is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, with two brick chimney stacks. The cottages are two storeys and have attics, with three windows and two gabled dormers. They have casement windows and simple doorcases.
Local climate
April Cottage Tile Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 9 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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