Halfway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 3 related planning applications.
Halfway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-newel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Halfway Cottage, Horsmonden Road, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7AX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 682 413
- Coordinates
- 51.14699, 0.40343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Halfway Cottage is a small house built around 1860, with alterations made in the early 1970s. The ground floor is constructed of brick, painted white on the front, while the first floor is weatherboarded. It has a peg-tile roof with end stacks. The house faces east and is situated below the road. Originally designed with a two-cell plan and a central entrance, the entrance has since been moved to the right side. It is said to have originally included an outshut, which was raised to two storeys, resulting in a double depth plan.
The exterior features two storeys with a symmetrical two-window front. The roof is half-hipped at the ends, and there are two 16-pane sash windows from the 19th century on both the first and ground floors. A 20th-century glazed gabled porch is located on the right side of the building.
The cottage has group value with the Halfway House Public House.
Local climate
Halfway Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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