April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse, cottage. 1 related planning application.
April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-alcove-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
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2JD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 792 375
- Coordinates
- 51.10913, 0.55992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former farmhouse, now divided into three cottages. It largely dates to the late 16th century, with an 18th-century wing added that projects to the right. The building is timber-framed and has a ground floor of red and blue brick, a first floor clad in tile hanging, and a plain tiled half-hipped roof to the main wing. A lower-hipped wing is set to the right.
The main wing (The Corner House) has two storeys, featuring a tall stack positioned off-centre to the front and one window on the ground floor and one window on the re-entrant flank of the wing. The 18th-century wing has a mixture of 19th and 20th-century casement and sash windows on its ground floor. An entrance is located in the re-entrant flank of the main wing; it has a 19th-century gabled trellised porch to the left of centre. Another entrance on the lean-to to April Cottage has a cambered doorcase.
Local climate
April Cottage the Corner House the 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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