The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1989. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-quoin-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Badsell Road, Capel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 649 453
- Coordinates
- 51.18318, 0.35809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the early to mid-19th century, although it may be older. It is timber-framed and covered with weatherboards, featuring a brick stack and chimney shaft, and has a peg-tile roof.
The building has a small two-room layout with a central entrance facing north along the street. The stack is located at the left (east) end, and the cottage is two storeys high.
The exterior is not symmetrical, with a two-window front that includes various 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and the ground floor has diamond panes of leaded glass. The central doorway features a 20th-century plank door beneath a shallow hood supported by shaped timber brackets. The roof runs parallel to the street and connects to the roof over Ivy Cottages on the right.
The interior was not available for inspection during the survey.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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