Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1992. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1992
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Iden Green, Benenden, TN17 4HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 805 318
- Coordinates
- 51.05764, 0.57473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Iden Green. The front of the cottage is clad in weatherboarding resting on a brick base, while the sides are tile hung. It features a tiled roof with external brick chimneystacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. The first-floor windows are 20th-century metal casements, while the ground floor has early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows. There is also a 20th-century porch.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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 — 17 transactions since 2002
- 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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