Letterbox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Letterbox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-jade-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Letterbox Cottage, Friezley Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 379
- Coordinates
- 51.11348, 0.53207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Letterbox Cottage is a 17th-century house with a timber frame, featuring a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. It has a plain tiled hipped roof and a lower return wing on the left side. The cottage is two storeys tall, with a ridge stack on the right and an end stack on the left. The windows are arranged irregularly, with three on the first floor and four on the ground floor, including a very wide window in the center of the first floor. The windows are 20th-century wooden casements. There is a half-glazed door under a porch at the angle with the left wing and another half-glazed door at the right end. Inside, there is evidence of a substantial timber frame.
Local climate
Letterbox 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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