Birch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Birch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-roof-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birch Cottage, the Heath, Horsmonden, TN12 8JS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 701 405
- Coordinates
- 51.13871, 0.43023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottage is a house dating to the 17th century, with a possible earlier rear wing. The construction is timber framed, with the first floor having exposed timber and plaster infill. The ground floor is red brick with some sandstone used as well. It has a plain tiled roof. The house follows a lobby entry plan with one storey and an attic, standing on a plinth. The half-hipped roof is punctuated by three gabled dormers and a stack centrally located to the left. The hip end of the rear wing projects outwards towards the centre right. There are three windows with two and three lights each on the ground floor, and a boarded door located centrally to the left, protected by a raking porch with prominent vertical ornamental iron straps. A gabled wing faced with tile hanging extends to the rear right.
Local climate
Birch 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 1995
- 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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