Tilden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 5 related planning applications.
Tilden
- WRENN ID
- high-brass-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tilden, Water Lane, Hawkhurst, TN18 5AY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 776 321
- Coordinates
- 51.06081, 0.53327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tilden is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame that is tile hung, with part of the small panel frame exposed on the right return. The base is made of English bond brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan with a cross-wing. It stands two storeys high with a garret on a brick base, and has a half-hipped roof with a projecting half-hipped cross wing to the left. There is a stack located to the centre left.
The cross-wing has a two-light garret window and three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor. The first floor of the main range includes two, four, and two-light leaded mullioned wooden casements, while the ground floor features two and four-light windows. There are French doors on the end right and a rib and stud door to the centre left. The right return has a four-light mullioned garret window and one wooden casement on each floor, along with a rib and stud door to the right. At the rear, there is a catslide outshut with a stack positioned to the rear right.
Local climate
Tilden 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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