Old Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-arch-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Park Cottage, Cranbrook Road, Goudhurst, TN17 2PD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 748 381
- Coordinates
- 51.11568, 0.49741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Park Cottage is a mid-19th century keepers cottage situated on the Cranbrook Road in Goudhurst. It is constructed of sandstone blocks with a plain tiled roof. The cottage is single-story with a garret and has a cross plan. The front elevation features a projecting gabled wing to the centre-left, topped with a steeply pitched gable displaying pierced and moulded bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial. A stack is centrally positioned on this gable. A small 20th-century dormer window is visible to the right. The gable has a wooden casement window on the first floor, and narrow single lights on the ground floor – one to the left, two to the right, and one on the gable’s side elevations. A boarded door sits within a four-centred arched doorway in the gable. The end gables are similarly detailed with pierced and moulded bargeboards, pendants, and finials. A hipped bay is located on the right return. Originally belonging to the Glassenbury Estate, associated with Glassenbury House in the Cranbrook Civil Parish, the cottage served as a keepers residence.
Local climate
Old Park 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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