White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Cottage.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-eave-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, Queen Street, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 284
- Coordinates
- 51.02729, 0.56207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Queen Street in Sandhurst. It features a timber frame clad in weatherboarding and has a tiled roof with a brick chimney stack at the right end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows with 16-pane sashes. The central entrance has a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets, and the door itself is a four-fielded panelled design. On the right side of the cottage, there is a cross-shaped iron tie and a 20th-century extension on the ground floor.
Local climate
White 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 79% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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