Capel Cross Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House pair.
Capel Cross Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-chimney-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Capel Cross Cottage, 1 and 2, Grovehurst Road, Horsmonden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 711 399
- Coordinates
- 51.13363, 0.44478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Capel Cross Cottage is a house, now divided into a pair of houses, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame and is tile hung on a sandstone base, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a plinth, with stacks located to the centre right and at the end right.
The first floor has windows positioned high under the eaves, including two three-light wooden casements, a central two-light wooden casement, and a five-light mullioned window at the end right. On the ground floor, there are two-light and two three-light wooden casements. There are also two half-glazed doors to the centre right, which are sheltered by a single raking hood. An additional half-timbered outshot has been added to the left, featuring a wooden casement.
Local climate
Capel Cross Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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