Glassenbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse.
Glassenbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-joist-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Glassenbury Cottage, Glassenbury Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 749 362
- Coordinates
- 51.09889, 0.49725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glassenbury Cottage is a farmhouse that was later converted into a pair of cottages and is now a house. It dates from the late 16th century and features a timber-framed structure with exposed tall studding, some curved braces, and plaster infill. There is also some brick infill on the ground floor. The roof is plain tiled, and there is a tall off-ridge stack at the front right, along with three gabled dormers. The building has two storeys and attics, with an irregular arrangement of windows—four on the first floor and four on the ground floor. The main entrance is located in a 20th-century addition at the left end, with glazed doors in the center and to the right of the front. Inside, a substantial timber frame is visible.
Local climate
Glassenbury 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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