Crest Cottage Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A 19th century Cottage pair.
Crest Cottage Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-string-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage pair
- Address
- Crest Cottage Dove Cottage, Bakers Cross, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 779 358
- Coordinates
- 51.09479, 0.54015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crest Cottage and Dove Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the early 19th century. They feature part timber framing with a painted brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. The cottages have slate roofs, with a taller hipped wing located behind the center of the ridge. There are brick stacks positioned to the left, off center to the right, and on the rear wing. The buildings are two storeys high, with an irregular arrangement of four windows on the first floor and three windows on the ground floor. The first floor has glazing bar sashes with open boxes, while the ground floor has glazing bar sashes as well. The entrance to Crest Cottage is located to the left of center and features a panelled door with an inset fanlight. The entrance to Dove Cottage is at the extreme right, also with a panelled door. At the rear, there is a wing with a very steep hipped roof and a large gablet to the east, which may date back to the 15th or 16th century.
Local climate
Crest Cottage Dove 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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- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
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