The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-wattle-finch
- 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
- The Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09539, 0.53006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Cranbrook High Street. It is timber framed and has a ground floor clad in painted brick, with the first floor tile hung. The roof is steep and tiled, with a brick stack at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high with an attic, and has an irregular two-window front, with the first-floor windows set under the eaves. The windows are 19th-century wooden casements. A board door is positioned in the centre, sheltered by a flat hood.
Local climate
The 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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