Nos. 6 and 8 Newcomen Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2016. House.
Nos. 6 and 8 Newcomen Road
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-belfry-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2016
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nos. 6 and 8 Newcomen Road, 6 &Amp; 8 Newcomen Road, TN4 9PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 582 404
- Coordinates
- 51.14121, 0.26126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 6 and 8 Newcomen Road are a pair of model cottages built between 1850 and 1852. They were designed by the architect Henry Roberts in a Tudor style for the Tunbridge Wells Branch of 'The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes'. There have been some late 20th-century additions and alterations that are not of special interest.
The cottages are constructed with render over Roberts' patent hollow bricks, featuring a slate roof and a central clustered brick chimneystack. The plan is asymmetrical and almost T-shaped.
The front elevation of no. 6 includes a doorcase on the right with a moulded architrave and a hood mould, along with a 20th-century casement window in an existing surround, which also has a hood mould. Above this is a gabled dormer. The side elevation has similar casement windows beneath a hood mould on the ground floor.
No. 8 has a front elevation with a projecting gable to the right, which contains a UPVC casement window in an original surround with hood moulding. Set back from this is a doorcase with a hood mould and a UPVC casement window. The side elevation of no. 8 has no window openings, and there is a later extension at the rear.
The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Nos. 6 and 8 Newcomen Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
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