Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-pilaster-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 774 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09562, 0.53221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, largely re-clad in the 18th century. It is timber framed and faced with red brick. The roof is tiled, with a wooden dentil eaves cornice and brick ridge stacks to the left and behind the ridge to the right. There are two hipped dormers. The cottage has two storeys and attics, with a two-window front. The windows are casements, with the ground-floor windows being large. A boarded door is located to the right of the centre, with a small flat hood supported by brackets above it.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- 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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