Four Wents Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Four Wents Cottages
- WRENN ID
- other-solder-finch
- 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
- Address
- Four Wents Cottages, Gouldhurst Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 752 375
- Coordinates
- 51.11048, 0.5024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four Wents Cottages is a possible former hall-house, now divided into two cottages, dating from the 16th century with 19th-century cladding. The building features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor at the front. The first floor on the left-hand end has exposed framing with plaster infilling. It has a plain tiled hipped roof with gablets and a very wide brick stack located to the right of the center on the ridge. The structure is two storeys high with irregular fenestration, including one window on the first floor to the right and two on the ground floor. The windows are large lattice casements, and there are paired central half-glazed doors. Additionally, there is a casement window in the catslide outshot at the right-hand end. The rear of the building has two storey 20th-century extensions.
Local climate
Four Wents 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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