Tollgate is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1988. Tollgate. 1 related planning application.
Tollgate
- WRENN ID
- waning-wicket-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1988
- Type
- Tollgate
- Address
- Tollgate, Highgate Hill, Hawkhurst, TN18 4LS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 300
- Coordinates
- 51.04325, 0.50849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tollgate is a mid-19th century tollhouse located on Highgate Hill in Hawkhurst. It is constructed from sandstone and features a plain tiled roof. The building has a simple rectangular plan, with a single storey and attic facing the road and two storeys at the rear. The roadside elevation includes a plinth and a shaped kneelered parapet gable, which has both concave and convex curves, topped with a cross-shaped pinnacle. A central stack with a star-plan moulded design is present.
On the ground floor, there is a single narrow attic light and a stone canted bay window with mullions. The right side has a boarded door set in a porch, which features a smaller shaped gable and a loop-cross in the end wall, along with a shouldered door opening to the roadside. There is also a boarded door at the rear right on the ground floor, and stone mullioned windows on the return and rear elevations. The house is situated on a high embankment, which is part of the engineering works related to the associated turnpike road, now designated as the A4229.
Local climate
Tollgate 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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