Mill Street Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Mill Street Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-garret-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 July 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
Mill Street Cottage, Benenden, TN17 4HH
OS grid reference
TQ 803 315
Coordinates
51.05513, 0.5715
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Mill Street Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Mill Street in Iden Green, Benenden. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers, while the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is tiled, hipped on the right-hand side, with an external brick chimneystack. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows. It features 19th-century casement windows and a simple doorcase with an open pediment supported by brackets, containing a plank door. It holds group value as a well-preserved example of a rural cottage.

Local climate

Mill Street 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 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
  • 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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