Combourne Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Cottage pair. 3 related planning applications.
Combourne Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-moulding-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage pair
- Address
- Combourne Cottages, Goudhurst, TN17 1LP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 741 397
- Coordinates
- 51.1307, 0.48771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages, likely dating back to the 16th century or earlier, were substantially altered and re-clad in the mid-19th century. The cottages have a timber frame and a plain tiled roof, with the ground floor clad in red and blue chequered brick. They are arranged with a lobby entry plan and cross-wings. The cottages are two storeys high, with a projecting gabled wing added in the 19th century, and a three-storeyed cross-wing to the right. Chimneys are located at the left end, to the rear right, and clustered towards the centre right. The left-hand wing features a large three-light wooden casement window on each floor, along with a panelled door to the right. The main range has two metal casement windows on each floor, and a central wooden casement window on the first floor, with a boarded door in a raking porch to the centre right. The tall, three-storeyed wing on the right has a steeply pitched hipped roof. A substantial timber frame is reported to be present within the structure.
Local climate
Combourne 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- 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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