Cleveland Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. A C18 Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Cleveland Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Cleveland Cottage, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 807 329
- Coordinates
- 51.0677, 0.579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cleveland Cottage is a pair of cottages, now under single ownership, dating from the mid-18th century. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor features mathematical tiles. The building has a tiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice and is two storeys high with two bays and an end chimneystack. There are two triple 19th-century casement windows, and the central entrance has a paired doorcase topped with flat wooden weatherhoods supported by brackets, leading to four-panelled doors. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension with a ground floor of red brick and a first floor that is weatherboarded, featuring a hipped tiled roof that was originally a catslide. Inside, the cottage includes a large inglenook fireplace, a winder staircase, and plain plank doors, some of which have a circular opening near the top.
Local climate
Cleveland 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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