Napier Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Napier Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-gargoyle-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Napier Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09519, 0.53024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Napier Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Cranbrook High Street. It has a timber frame with a painted brick ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high with garrets and features three windows on the front. The windows are 19th and 20th-century casements, and there is a small square bay window on the ground floor to the right. The entrance is a boarded door located in the centre of the front. Inside, some framing of thin scantling is visible. The cottage is included in the listing for its group value only.
Local climate
Napier Cottage 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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