Twitten Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Cottage row. 2 related planning applications.
Twitten Cottages
- WRENN ID
- winding-zinc-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage row
- Address
- Twitten Cottages, 1-3, West Road, Goudhurst, TN17 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 721 376
- Coordinates
- 51.11228, 0.45821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of cottages, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century. The cottages are timber-framed with red brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. They have a plain tiled roof. The main range is a single storey with an attic, and a two-storey projecting cross-wing to the right. The cross-wing, which runs parallel to the main road, is likely the older part of the building. It has a half-hip roof and wooden casement windows on each floor. There is a boarded door in its original position. The main range has a gabled roof with stacks at each end of the loft and in the centre to the right, along with two gabled dormers. It features wooden casement windows and boarded doors on the ground floor.
Local climate
Twitten Cottages 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 — 7 transactions since 2001
- 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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