Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-string-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 779 297
- Coordinates
- 51.03971, 0.53729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a house dating from around 1700 or earlier. It features a timber frame and is tile hung on the red brick ground floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a garret, standing on a plinth, with a half-hipped roof and chimney stacks at the left end and the rear right. On the first floor, there are three two-light wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has two similar windows. The entrance is a central boarded door located off-centre to the left, which is sheltered by a bracketed open pediment-shaped hood. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Well Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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