Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Cottage.
Swan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-solder-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swan Cottage, Bodiam Road, Sandhurst, TN18 5JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 283
- Coordinates
- 51.02642, 0.56171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage, formerly known as Glendower, is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a ground floor constructed of red brick, while the first floor is tile hung. It has a tiled roof and end brick chimneystacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows. The first floor showcases tripartite casements, while the ground floor includes two later square bays and a 20th-century doorcase with a hood supported by brackets, flanked by sidelights.
Local climate
Swan Cottage 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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