Woods Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1950. A Tudor Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Woods Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-corridor-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- Woods Cottage, 1 and 2, Victoria Road, Southborough, TN4 0LX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 571 422
- Coordinates
- 51.15768, 0.2462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woods Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed farmhouse, later divided into two cottages. The ground floor of both cottages has brick infilling between the timber framing, while the upper floors have plaster infilling. Diagonal braces are visible on the first floor. The roof is tiled and hipped, with two small dormers and a central ridge stack. The cottage is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window façade featuring irregularly placed casement windows, some of which are horizontally sliding. According to local tradition, a nurse of Queen Victoria resided here in her retirement and the Queen is believed to have visited.
Local climate
Woods 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings