Chimney Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Chimney Cottage

WRENN ID
dreaming-ashlar-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Chimney Cottage, Biddenden Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN27 8LW
OS grid reference
TQ 826 386
Coordinates
51.11819, 0.60854
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chimney Cottage is a cottage that may have been part of a former hall-house, dating from the early 16th century and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a weather-boarded first floor. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right with a gablet and half-hipped to the left. The building has two storeys with an irregular arrangement of windows, including one window on both floors and a pair of French casements at the entrance on the left. There is a tall red brick stack on a projecting chimney breast on the right-hand return front. A 20th-century bay has been added to the left-hand return front. The entrances are located in the right-hand return front, with a glazed door to the left of the chimney breast and a half-glazed door to the right in a small catslide outshot.

Local climate

Chimney 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 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • 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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