The Cottage the Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1992. A 18th century Cottages.
The Cottage the Stores
- WRENN ID
- silver-fireplace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1992
- Type
- Cottages
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- The Cottage the Stores, Iden Green, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 805 318
- Coordinates
- 51.0578, 0.575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and The Stores are two cottages built in the 18th century, located in Iden Green. The left-hand cottage features weatherboarding, a tiled roof, and a brick chimney stack on the left end. It has two storeys, attics, and a basement, with two casement windows, trelliswork, and a tiled weather porch that includes a four-panelled door. The right-hand cottage is also weatherboarded and has a gambrel tiled roof with a brick chimney stack on the left side. This cottage is one storey tall and has two casement windows. There is an L-shaped wing at the back with a half-hipped tiled roof and two casement windows.
Local climate
The Cottage the Stores sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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