Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-garret-lark
- 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
- Keepers Cottage, Delmonden Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4XJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 738 302
- Coordinates
- 51.04521, 0.47855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a 17th-century house situated on the south side of Delmorden Road in Hawkhurst. The house is timber framed and exposed with plaster infill, with tile hanging to the right return. It has a plain tiled roof, resting on a stone base. The building is single storey with an attic, featuring large panel framing and a half-hipped roof with a stack to the left. There are two hipped dormers. An outshot projects to the left, with a small casement window at mezzanine level. The ground floor has three irregularly sized wooden casement windows, and a boarded door is centrally positioned in a large, framed porch. A catslide outshot extends to the rear.
Local climate
Keepers Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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