Shrewsbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Cottage.
Shrewsbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-attic-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shrewsbury Cottage, Rye Road, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 800 283
- Coordinates
- 51.02622, 0.56659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrewsbury Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Rye Road in Sandhurst. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor is tile hung. It features a tiled roof with an external brick chimney stack at one end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, which are 19th-century casements. The central entrance has a wooden doorcase topped with an open pedimented hood supported by brackets, leading to a ribbed plank door.
Local climate
Shrewsbury Cottage 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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