Bakers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
Bakers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-chamber-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bakers Cottage, 4, High Street, Bidborough, TN3 0UJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 564 432
- Coordinates
- 51.16678, 0.23683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bakers Cottage is a small house that was formerly two cottages, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with renovations around 1980. The ground floor is constructed of brick, while the first floor is hung with clay tiles, topped by a two-span peg-tile roof with brick stacks.
The house faces west and is located below the churchyard. It has a double depth plan that is two rooms wide with a central entrance. The two front rooms are heated by projecting end stacks, while the rear service rooms are unheated. An old description from 1949 noted that there were two adjacent front doors in the center.
The exterior features two storeys with a symmetrical three-bay front that includes a 20th-century brick porch. The windows are either from the 19th or 20th century, with 16-pane sash windows flanking the porch and three 4-over-8 pane windows on the first floor. The roof is gabled at the ends.
The interior has not been inspected. Bakers Cottage is part of a row of small vernacular houses and has group value with the nearby church.
Local climate
Bakers Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1996
- 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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