Adam Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 3 related planning applications.
Adam Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-nave-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Adam Cottage, the Green, Speldhurst, TN3 0JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 543 393
- Coordinates
- 51.1325, 0.2048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Adam Cottage is a house likely dating from the early 19th century, with a 20th-century extension and modernization. It is constructed of dark ochre coloured Flemish bond brick, with red brick used around the window and door openings and a red brick band at first floor level. The brick stacks and chimneyshafts have chimneypots and the roof is slate-covered.
The house is built on a double-depth plan, facing west onto The Green. It features front and back rooms on either side of a central entrance hall and main staircase. Each end has a front and back end stack. A 20th-century garage on the right-hand end, with a studio room above, is set back slightly from the main front.
The main front of the house is symmetrical with a two-window facade, featuring 16-pane sashes under low segmental brick arches. The central doorway has a 20th-century part-glazed, two-panel door within a fluted timber doorcase, covered by a flat hood with moulded edges. The eaves are deep and the roof has a low pitch and is hipped at both ends.
The interior was not available for inspection at the time of survey.
Adam Cottage is part of an attractive and varied group of buildings fronting onto The Green.
Local climate
Adam Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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