Thyme Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Thyme Cottage

WRENN ID
fallow-span-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Thyme Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3EN
OS grid reference
TQ 772 359
Coordinates
51.09534, 0.52982
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Thyme Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has 18th-century cladding. It features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor. The roof is plain tiled and has a brick stack on the left side. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window front. The first floor has casement windows, while the ground floor has small flat-headed square bays on either side of a central boarded door.

Local climate

Thyme Cottage 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. May Cottage Grade II 7 m
  2. Orphirvilla Grade II 8 m
  3. Penfolds Grade II 12 m
  4. The Cottage Grade II 17 m
  5. Briar Cottage Myrtles Grade II 19 m
  6. High House Grade II 24 m
  7. Napier Cottage Grade II 33 m
  8. Tiffins Place and Little Tudor Grade II 41 m
  9. Cranehurst Grade II 50 m
  10. Little Shepherds Grade II 57 m