Horns Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A Circa 1600 House. 2 related planning applications.
Horns Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-gargoyle-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horns Cottage, Delmonden Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4XB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 743 295
- Coordinates
- 51.03892, 0.48535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horns Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It has a timber frame and is tile hung, with red brick on the left side of the ground floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building features a two-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with a garret. A large cluster of stacks is located at the center of the roof. On each floor, there are two wooden casements with three lights, and a small single light window is positioned to the center left on the first floor. The entrance is a 20th-century plank and stud door located in a tile-hung and gabled porch.
Local climate
Horns Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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