55, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1978. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
55, London Road
- WRENN ID
- hollow-zinc-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 55, London Road, Southborough, TN4 0PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 579 425
- Coordinates
- 51.16077, 0.25718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 on London Road is a timber-framed cottage, likely built in the 17th century and refaced in the 18th century. The front is covered in stucco, which is grooved to resemble masonry. The ground floor has been underbuilt, showing traces of a bressummer at the north-west corner. The cottage features a tiled roof with a 17th-century chimney stack and has two 19th-century dormers with casement windows. It stands two storeys high with an attic and is two windows wide. The first floor has two modern casement windows, while the ground floor has square bay windows with pointed heads. To the left, there is a 19th-century gabled and tiled weather porch supported by square wooden piers, which are adorned with decorated barge-boards, a pendant, and a finial.
Local climate
55, London Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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