Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Gate. 5 related planning applications.
Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-timber-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Cottage, Groombridge Hill, Speldhurst, TN3 9NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 532 379
- Coordinates
- 51.1204, 0.18889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, gate piers, and flanking walls to The Cottage were constructed around 1835. The boundary walls, which support the terraced garden of The Cottage, are battered and made of rock-faced coursed sandstone. On either side of the recessed entrance to The Cottage, there are square section piers made of sandstone ashlar, featuring bands around the top. The taller walls of coursed sandstone angle inwards towards the gate piers, which are taller versions of the other piers. These gate piers hold what are likely the original wrought iron double gates, adorned with friezes of anthemion ornament. This structure is part of a notable group of listed buildings on Groombridge Hill, situated near Groombridge Place and the village of Old Groombridge.
Local climate
Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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