Blackman's Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A C16-C18 House.
Blackman's Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-gargoyle-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blackman's Old Cottage, Church Road, Goudhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 724 378
- Coordinates
- 51.11442, 0.46255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackman's Old Cottage is a house that has been converted into a pair of cottages. It dates back to the 16th century and was altered in the 18th century. The building is timber framed and weather-boarded on the ground floor, with tile hanging on the first floor and a plain tiled roof. It features a lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys high, with an eaves-drop to the ground floor and a half-hipped roof. There are stacks at both ends and clustered to the centre left.
The cottage has four leaded wooden casements on each floor, arranged in patterns of 3, 1, 4, and 4 lights on the first floor, and 3, 1, 3, and 3 on the ground floor. There is a boarded door to the centre left and a glazed door to the centre right, both located in a hipped porch. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot. Portions of the frame are exposed below the eaves-drop, showcasing large panels and curved bracing. Inside, the exposed frame and inglenooks are visible.
Local climate
Blackman's Old 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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