Rose Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Rose Cottages
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-glass-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottages, 1 and 2, Church Road, Paddock Wood, TN12 6HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 678 443
- Coordinates
- 51.17353, 0.39929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottages is a pair of cottages, likely built in the early 19th century, possibly as a remodelling of an earlier structure. The south end was partly rebuilt or extended in the late 20th century. The cottages are constructed of garden wall bond brick and feature a peg-tile roof that is half-hipped at both ends, along with brick stacks.
The cottages face east and overlook the road. The right-hand cottage has its front door positioned to the right, while the left-hand cottage has its front door towards the centre of the building. They are two storeys high, with a half-hipped roof and an axial stack to the right of centre, which has a 20th-century chimney shaft. There is also a projecting stack at the left end, also with a 20th-century shaft. The front is asymmetrical with three windows, and both cottages have early 19th-century panelled front doors topped with gabled porch hoods featuring curly pierced bargeboards. The ground floor has three 2-light cast iron casements with diamond panes and segmental arches. There are two gabled dormers to the right of centre, which are glazed with similar early 19th-century casements.
The interior has not been inspected but is reported not to retain exposed carpentry.
Local climate
Rose 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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