Foxearth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Foxearth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-jade-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foxearth Cottage, Tanyard Road, Frittenden, TN17 2AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 394
- Coordinates
- 51.12607, 0.56796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxearth Cottage is a house dating from around 1700. It is timber framed and weather boarded, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a garret, featuring a gambrel roof and a central moulded chimney stack. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has three three-light wooden casement windows and a plank and stud door to the right, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported on brackets. There is also a garret casement window on the return elevations. At the rear, there are lower two-storey extensions that are half-hipped and have wooden casements. Inside, the light scantling frame is visible.
Local climate
Foxearth Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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