Old Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1991. House.

Old Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
last-entrance-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1991
Type
House
Address
Old Mill Cottage, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
OS grid reference
TQ 765 370
Coordinates
51.10583, 0.51992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Mill Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier and was extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plaster panels and some brick pitching. The southwest elevation is faced with weatherboarding on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. There is a large brick axial stack.

The building has an L-shaped plan. The original internal arrangement is not known, but the slightly lower northeast wing has a large axial stack and a later outshut at its northeast end.

The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window southwest front with 20th-century two and three-light casements that have leaded panes, and there is no doorway. The left return and rear of the southwest range feature curved tension braces on the first floor, while the right-hand return has straight tension braces. All windows are small 20th-century casements with leaded panes, and there is a 20th-century plank door on the northwest elevation. At the end of the northeast wing, the hipped roof extends down as a catslide over an extension that has been raised in the 20th century, with weatherboarded walls and a hipped roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Old Mill Cottage 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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