Penn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 4 related planning applications.
Penn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-oriel-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penn Cottage, the Green, Speldhurst, TN3 0JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 543 393
- Coordinates
- 51.13224, 0.20482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penn Cottage is a small house, likely built in the mid-19th century, with some modern updates from the 20th century. The ground floor features Flemish bond red brick, which is patched with stretcher bond red brick at the south end. Above, the house is timber-framed and covered with peg tiles. It has a brick stack and chimney shaft topped with chimney pots, and the roof is also made of peg tiles.
The cottage has a two-room plan that faces west toward The Green. There are axial stacks between the rooms that serve back-to-back fireplaces. The entrance porch is located at the right (south) end, set back from the front, and it leads to a small parallel service block at the rear.
The exterior of the house has a regular two-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The roof is gable-ended, and the doorway, which is recessed and located at the right end, contains a 20th-century panelled door. The roof rises to two storeys.
The interior was not available for inspection during the survey. Penn Cottage is part of a charming and diverse group of buildings along the east side of The Green.
Local climate
Penn Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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