Gatehouse Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Cottage.
Gatehouse Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-eave-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gatehouse Cottages, 3, Fairmans Lane, Brenchley and Matfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 678 414
- Coordinates
- 51.14751, 0.39851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehouse Cottages is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century, with an addition made in the 1980s. The ground floor is built of brick, while the first floor features a framed construction covered in weatherboarding. The roof is made of peg tiles and has a brick chimney.
The cottage faces north and is positioned end-on to the road, forming a group with Nos 1 and 2, which are set at right angles to the north. It is a small two-cell cottage, with the left (east) room heated by an end stack and a central entrance. The 1980s addition is slightly set back at the right (west) end.
The exterior has two storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front. It features a central 19th-century plank front door, along with two three-light casement windows on both the first and ground floors, with two panes per light. There is a large projecting chimney stack on the left (east) end. The roof is gabled at the east end and half-hipped at the west end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gatehouse Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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