Briar Cottage Myrtles is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.
Briar Cottage Myrtles
- WRENN ID
- watchful-dormer-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Briar Cottage Myrtles, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09528, 0.52956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage and Myrtles is a house pair that dates back to the 16th century but was clad in the early 19th century. The building is timber framed and features painted brick on the ground floor, with tile hanging on the first floor. It has moulded eaves beneath a plain tiled roof, which includes tall brick ridge stacks at both ends. The front has a continuous jetty that is now boxed in. The structure is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of five windows on the first floor, all of which are tripartite sashes except for the second window from the left. On the ground floor, there are four bays with boarded doors situated between the panes on each side, with the left bay (Myrtles) featuring an arched head.
Local climate
Briar Cottage Myrtles 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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