Little Bettenham is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage.

Little Bettenham

WRENN ID
moated-gravel-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Little Bettenham, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 824 390
Coordinates
51.12147, 0.60505
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Bettenham is a possible hall-house that has been converted into a cottage. It dates from the late 15th century to early 16th century and features a 19th-century wing at the rear and cladding. The building is timber-framed, with a painted brick ground floor and a first floor that is hung with plain and fish-scale tiles. It has a plain tiled hipped roof with gables and a large red brick stack at the right end of the main ridge. The cottage is two storeys high and has irregular fenestration, including a large gabled semi-dormer that breaks through the eaves to the left of centre. There are two casement windows on the first floor and two larger casements on the ground floor, along with a glazed door to the left. To the right, there is a glazed single-storey conservatory with a glazed garden door. The 19th-century two-storey wing is located at the rear, along with an 18th-century outshut in the angle behind the earlier block.

Local climate

Little Bettenham 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 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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