Grey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Grey Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hushed-column-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grey Cottages, the Hill, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 779 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09495, 0.53927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grey Cottages is a house dating from the 16th century, significantly altered in the 18th century. It is timber framed and originally constructed with red brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, though the road front and corner are painted. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, hipped to the west, with one dormer window facing the road and two to the north. Brick stacks are located to the east and on the north slope, with a projecting breast stack situated just behind the front. The building is two storeys high with attics. A shop front fronts the road, with two square oriels situated on the first floor above modern shop fronts and a half-glazed door with a transom light. The north side has an irregular arrangement of windows, including a large square oriel with Ipswich glazing and a panelled door with a fanlight. A two-storey weatherboarded extension, with a hipped roof, adjoins the east side.
Local climate
Grey 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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