Gilbraltar Cottage and Rocklea is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Gilbraltar Cottage and Rocklea
- WRENN ID
- shifting-quoin-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gilbraltar Cottage and Rocklea, the Common, TN4 8BJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 581 395
- Coordinates
- 51.13329, 0.25842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now subdivided, dating to circa 1828 and designed by Decimus Burton. It is of an irregular shape and built in the cottage Gothic style. The south-west front is stuccoed, while the south-east front is faced with weather-boarding. The south-east side has four windows, and the south-west side also has four. A stringcourse runs around the building. The south-west front has four gables featuring scalloped bargeboards, and retains its original glazing bars. The south-east front has two similar gables, but below them, two bays of three windows each have been added on both floors, with French windows on the ground floor. Glazing bars are intact on the first floor of the bays. The north corner of the house has been separated to form a second house called "Rocklea," which incorporates 20th-century windows.
Local climate
Gilbraltar Cottage and Rocklea receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 4 transactions since 2006
- 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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