Borough Cottages Rowan Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Borough Cottages Rowan Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-slate-cobweb
- 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
- Borough Cottages Rowan Tree Cottage, the Hill, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3HS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 778 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09528, 0.53854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowan Tree Cottage, part of a row of cottages known as Borough Cottages, dates from the early 19th century. It's timber-framed with a red brick plinth and weatherboarded elevations. The roof is tiled and hipped, featuring an end stack on the left and a ridge stack on the right. The cottage has a symmetrical 4-window facade, with glazing bar sash windows throughout. A boarded door is located to the right of the ground floor window on the left, while a pair of panelled doors sit centrally and another is situated to the left of the window on the right. Each door is sheltered by a pentice hood.
Local climate
Borough Cottages Rowan Tree 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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