Belle Vue Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1979. Cottage, commercial. 3 related planning applications.
Belle Vue Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rotunda-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage, commercial
- Address
- Belle Vue Cottages, 1-3, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 774 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09587, 0.53317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belle Vue Cottages is a row of cottages, now shops, located on the south side of Cranbrook High Street. The core of the building dates to the 16th century, but it was re-clad in the 19th century. The cottages are timber-framed and have red brick cladding, with tile hanging on the first floor. The roof is tiled, featuring decorative barge boards and a pendant on the gable at the right end. Three flat-headed dormers are visible. The cottages are two storeys and have attics, presenting an irregular front with four windows. The first floor has glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor contains three 20th-century shop fronts with fascia boards above. Each shop front has a half-glazed door inset at the right-hand end. The interior reveals substantial timber framing, and an original diamond mullioned window survives at the right end of the building.
Local climate
Belle Vue Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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