Cockshot Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Cockshot Cottage

WRENN ID
salt-postern-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Cockshot Cottage, Highgate Hill, Hawkhurst, TN18 4LG
OS grid reference
TQ 759 301
Coordinates
51.04334, 0.50821
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cockshot Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on Highgate Hill in Hawkhurst. It is timber framed and weather-boarded, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a garret, featuring stacks at the rear left and a projecting, offset stack at the end right. The front has a regular arrangement of two three-light wooden casements on each floor, with a central boarded door. To the left, there is a lean-to outshot that includes a three-light wooden casement, and at the rear, there is a catslide outshot. A garret light is present on the left return.

Local climate

Cockshot Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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