9 and 10, Bampton Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Cottage.
9 and 10, Bampton Bank
- WRENN ID
- mired-frieze-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 9 and 10, Bampton Bank, Capel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 631 448
- Coordinates
- 51.17988, 0.33326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 9 and 10 Bampton Bank are a pair of cottages built around 1919 as a memorial for the First World War. They are constructed from red brick with stone ashlar dressings, featuring brick stacks and chimney shafts, and have a roof covered in diaper tiles.
The cottages are designed in a mirror-plan layout, facing southeast on a bank above the road. The overall structure forms a T-shape. Each cottage has two rooms on either side of a large central stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces, with projecting gable-end stacks at each end. In the center, each cottage has a one-room parlour that projects forward under parallel roofs.
The exterior is symmetrical, with a 1:2:1 window arrangement featuring timber casements that hold rectangular panes of leaded glass. The front parlour windows are taller and include mullions and transoms. The doorways are located at the back of the outer walls of the front parlour wings, both of which have replacement part-glazed doors and are sheltered by flat-roofed verandahs supported by brick piers. The main block has a gable-ended roof, while the front parlour wing features a double-gabled front with stone coping. A stone band at eaves level is inscribed in Roman serif capitals, reading "In memory of those who fell in the War, 1914-1918". Below the windows, there are three plaques inscribed with the names of the parish's fallen soldiers, framed by the dividing iron rainwater drainpipes.
The interior has not been inspected. These cottages serve as an attractive and meaningful war memorial.
Local climate
9 and 10, Bampton Bank receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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