6a, 6b and 7, Tippens Close is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
6a, 6b and 7, Tippens Close
- WRENN ID
- twisted-beam-merlin
- 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
- 6a, 6b and 7, Tippens Close, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 779 358
- Coordinates
- 51.0945, 0.53921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No's 6A, 6B, and 7 on Tippens Close is a farmhouse that has been converted into a trio of cottages. It dates back to the 16th century and features a timber frame with exposed wall posts on the ground floor, which are filled with red brick. The upper part of the building is tile-hung. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with chimney stacks located off the ridge to the front on the left and to the rear in the center. The building has two storeys and displays an irregular arrangement of windows, with six on the first floor and five on the ground floor, all of which are various 19th-century casements. There are boarded doors with flat hoods supported by brackets, located to the right for No 6A, in the center for No 6B, and to the left for No 7.
Local climate
6a, 6b and 7, Tippens Close 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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