Great Hungerden Cottages 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.
Great Hungerden Cottages
- WRENN ID
- eternal-mantel-ivory
- 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
- Great Hungerden Cottages, 1 and 2, Headcorn Road, Frittenden, TN17 2EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 818 423
- Coordinates
- 51.15156, 0.59904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Hungerden Cottages is a house located on the north side of Frittenden Headcorn Road, dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a hall house origin and features two storeys and an attic. The roof is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right, with gablets and a stack on the left side, along with a gabled dormer. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casements and a central two-light casement. The ground floor includes three and four-light casements, with a three-light casement to the right in a recessed outshot. The central entrance door has four panels and is topped with a flat hood. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Great Hungerden Cottages 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- 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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