Hill Side Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Hill Side Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-tower-starling
- 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
- Hill Side Cottage, the Hill, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 778 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09509, 0.53819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Side Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features a red brick ground floor and a first floor that is tile hung. The roof is a flipped plain tile design with two brick stacks on the right side. The cottage has a gable end facing the street and is two storeys high. The front has one window, which contains glazing bar sashes. To the left, there is a panelled door set in a reeded architrave surround, complete with a transom light and a flat hood above. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Hill Side 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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