Down Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1973. House pair. 4 related planning applications.
Down Cottages
- WRENN ID
- former-clay-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1973
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Down Cottages, 1-3, the Down, Lamberhurst, TN3 8EX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 673 355
- Coordinates
- 51.0946, 0.38828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Cottages is a pair of houses, possibly originally three, dating from the 17th century or earlier and largely re-clad in the 18th century. The houses have a timber frame and are clad with weatherboarding and red brick on the ground floor, with tile hanging on the first floor. They have a lobby entry plan, typical of their origin. The cottages are two storeys high, with a half-hipped roof on the left side, which steps up in the centre to a hipped roof on the right. Chimneys are located centrally, and project from the left and right ends. The left side has two-light wooden casement windows on each floor, while the right side has two three-light wooden casement windows on each floor. A ribbed door is located centrally, with a boarded door in the left return. A lower hipped wing returns to the right.
Local climate
Down Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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