The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-gable-merlin
- 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
- The Cottage, Hartley Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3LQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 767 356
- Coordinates
- 51.09321, 0.52327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a pair of cottages from the 18th century that have been combined into one building. It features a timber frame and is clad in red brick on the ground floor, with tile hanging on the first floor. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, and it has projecting stacks at the ends. The building is two storeys high and has a regular front with two windows. On the ground floor, there are casement windows to the left under a segmental head, and to the right, there are iron-framed windows. In the centre, there are paired boarded doors with small pentice hoods above.
Local climate
The 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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