Nos. 14 and 16 Newcomen Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2016. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Nos. 14 and 16 Newcomen Road
- WRENN ID
- swift-plinth-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2016
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Nos. 14 and 16 Newcomen Road, 14 &Amp; 16 Newcomen Road, TN4 9PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 583 404
- Coordinates
- 51.14131, 0.2618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 14 and 16 Newcomen Road are a pair of model cottages built in 1847-1848. They were designed by the architect Henry Roberts in the Tudor style for the Tunbridge Wells branch of 'The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes'. The cottages feature later 20th-century windows within their original surrounds.
The cottages are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with vitrified headers, complemented by sandstone dressings. They have a slate roof with a central brick chimneystack. The plan is symmetrical and rectangular, consisting of one storey and attics, with one window for each cottage.
On the exterior, there are central three-light casement windows adorned with sandstone dressings and hood moulds, with gabled dormers above. Each cottage has doorcases with moulded sandstone surrounds and hood moulds; No. 14 has a late 20th-century door, while No. 16 features a plank door. The side elevations are decorated with moulded barge-boards and have casement windows with hood moulds on the ground floor.
The interiors were not inspected.
Local climate
Nos. 14 and 16 Newcomen Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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