Hill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage pair. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ancient-zinc-sorrel
- 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 pair
- Address
- Hill Cottages, 1 and 2, Hawkhurst Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3PU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 345
- Coordinates
- 51.08355, 0.50902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two cottages, likely originally a hall house, dating from the early 16th century. The construction incorporates timber framing on a red brick plinth, with the upper parts weatherboarded. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, with a hipped end and a gablet on the right-hand side. A brick stack is located towards the right of the ridge. The layout suggests a possible former hall-house plan. The cottages are two storeys high, with an irregular façade featuring a four-window arrangement on the first floor and a three-window arrangement on the ground floor. The windows are a mix of large, wooden-framed casements with two or three lights. There are boarded doors at each end; the right-hand door (No. 1) has a flat hood supported by brackets, while the left-hand door (No. 2) has a gabled open trellis work. A 19th-century weather porch is present. Inside, substantial timber framing is visible, including jowled posts.
Local climate
Hill Cottages 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 — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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