White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached 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.
White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached
- WRENN ID
- tired-brass-mint
- 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
- White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached, Balcombes Hill, Goudhurst, TN17 2QP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 723 374
- Coordinates
- 51.1106, 0.46127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White's Cottage and White's Lodge, along with the attached wall and gate piers, date from around 1907. The buildings are constructed of red brick with an applied timber frame, featuring plaster infill and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The earliest part of the structure is likely the walls and gate piers that form the boundary to White's Lodge. The walls stand approximately 8 to 10 feet high, tapering down in several stages along the roadside and extending about 100 yards in total. At intervals, there are piers with cornices and ball finials, particularly at the gateway to White's Lodge and flanking the roadside elevation of White's Cottage. A round-headed window with louvred shutters is set into the wall, which is raised above it with a shaped gable.
White's Cottage itself is two storeys with an attic, featuring a hipped roof to the right and exposed studs on both sides. There is a hipped dormer on the right return. The first floor has three wooden casements, while the ground floor has two casements and a half-glazed door to the right. The left return wing includes a garret and a double-span gabled roof, with two wooden casements on all three floors. The ground floor features mullioned and transomed windows, along with a central glazed door. The left end block is a later addition.
Local climate
White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached 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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