Lamberts Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House pair. 8 related planning applications.

Lamberts Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
third-keystone-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
House pair
Address
Lamberts Yew Tree Cottage, Church Road, Goudhurst, TN17 1BH
OS grid reference
TQ 723 378
Coordinates
51.1141, 0.46093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lamberts and Yew Tree Cottage is a house that has been converted into a pair of houses. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 16th century and further changes in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with some exposed close-studding and plaster infill. The ground floor is partly clad in red brick, while the first floor is tile hung. It has a plain tiled roof and is designed in a truncated Wealden style with large cross-wings.

The front of the building is highly irregular, consisting of three sections, each two storeys high, with stacks at the left end and a central moulded cluster. On the first floor to the left, there is a three-light metal casement window, while the ground floor has a combination of wooden and metal casements, a bay window, and a boarded door under a pentice. The central gable, which is the original truncated Wealden, features two wooden casements and a small glazing bar sash on the ground floor. The right return has a bracket at the gable end, indicating a lost jettied wing, with overhanging eaves and a four-light leaded casement on each floor, the ground floor window having mullions and transoms. There is a boarded door on the left end. The right-hand range has two leaded wooden casements on each floor and a boarded door in the centre.

The garden front is similarly irregular, with a large stack on the left that has a boarded door set within it, a projecting 20th-century drawing room extension in the centre, and a truncated stack to the right with five irregularly placed windows.

Inside Lamberts, the hall area of the Wealden remains, featuring moulded and brattished beams at both ends, chamfered and moulded ceiling beams, and an inglenook fireplace made of sandstone blocks with triangular-headed recesses. The crown-post roof includes a short moulded post with a cap and base. The kitchen fireplace has a bread oven, and the close-studded wing contains a terminal outshut. The interior of Yew Tree Cottage has not been inspected.

Local climate

Lamberts Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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