Holly Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House pair. 2 related planning applications.
Holly Villas
- WRENN ID
- floating-chamber-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Holly Villas, 1 and 2, Cranbrook Road, Goudhurst, TN17 1DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 730 378
- Coordinates
- 51.11367, 0.47138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Villas is a pair of houses dating from the early 19th century, located on the south side of Cranbrook Road, Goudhurst. They were reportedly built to house workers for the Davis and Leaney Builders establishment, which formerly occupied the land behind the villas.
The houses are timber-framed and weather boarded, with some tile hanging on the return elevations, and have a plain tiled roof. They are designed in a Gothic cottage oriel style. The main range has a gable end facing the road, with two smaller gables projecting forward. These projecting gables have more elaborate moulded bargeboards and pendants than the main gable stacks. The attic has two Y-traceried arched lights, and the subsidiary gables have two depressed arched niches. Each floor features Gothick traceried, depressed arched headed glazing bar sashes.
Projecting returns flank the main range, with pierced bargeboards and pendants. There are traceried panel doors with depressed arched heads facing the road, and simple Y tracery wooden casements to the return elevations.
Local climate
Holly Villas 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 — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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