Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-chimney-crow
- 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
- Old Cottage, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 359
- Coordinates
- 51.09548, 0.53169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the early 16th century. They are timber-framed and sit on a red brick plinth, with the timber framing exposed, featuring close studding and plaster infilling. The roof is plain tiled, with a gable end facing the street and a small catslide extension to the left. There is a tall brick stack on the left side of the catslide. The building has two storeys and a garret, with a single window in the gable and two windows on the front below. Most windows are casements, except for two glazing bar sashes on the first floor. Each ground floor window has a boarded door to its left. Inside, there is a substantial timber frame with heavily jowled posts.
Local climate
Old 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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