Homebush Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House.
Homebush Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-stone-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Homebush Cottage, Brenchley Road, Brenchley and Matfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 664 419
- Coordinates
- 51.15284, 0.37802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homebush Cottage is a house, formerly two cottages, likely built in the late 17th century in two phases and thoroughly renovated in the 1970s. It features framed construction, with the ground floor covered in weatherboarding and the first floor tile-hung. The roof is made of peg tiles and gabled at both ends, with brick stacks.
The house faces approximately north and is situated along the road. Internally, it has been modernized with altered partitions. The right (west) end is probably the earlier section and has been raised.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. The roof is gabled at the ends, and there are projecting end stacks with tile-hung set-offs. A half-glazed 20th-century front door is located to the left of centre, flanked by small-pane windows. There are four small-pane top-hung casements on both the ground and first floors, along with one attic dormer that has a hipped roof and a small-pane casement.
Inside, the exposed carpentry has a plain character, with wall framing made of slender scantling and formed jowls to the wall posts. The roof has been replaced in the 20th century.
The cottage is prominently located on a roadside site.
Local climate
Homebush Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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