Christmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Cottage.
Christmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-zinc-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Christmas Cottage, 1, Berkeley Place, TN1 1YR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 584 388
- Coordinates
- 51.1271, 0.26322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Royal Tunbridge Wells on Berkeley Place. The ground floor is constructed of painted brick, while the first floor is tile-hung, featuring three courses of curved tiles that create a decorative band across the front. The roof is tiled, half-hipped to the east and gabled to the west, topped with a tall brick chimneystack. The cottage has two storeys and two windows, following a two bay end chimneystack plan form.
The front elevation, facing south, showcases early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows set within moulded wooden architraves. The central doorcase features a six-panel moulded door with a rectangular fanlight above, and there is a later trellised porch. The east elevation has no windows, and the north elevation is obscured by a later building. Overall, the cottage has seen little alteration and retains its character as a two bay end chimneystack cottage.
Local climate
Christmas Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
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