Reed's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage row.
Reed's Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-quartz-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage row
- Address
- Reed's Cottages, 1-4, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 793 375
- Coordinates
- 51.10894, 0.56115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reed's Cottages is a row of cottages that was originally a cloth hall, dating from the 16th century and altered in the later 18th century. The building is timber-framed, with red and blue brick cladding on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first floor. It has a plain tiled roof, tall brick stacks, and a larger brick stack in the center. The structure is two storeys high and features a regular arrangement of windows, with seven two- and three-light casements on the first floor, alternating in a rhythm of three-two-three-two-three-two-three. On the ground floor, there are four three-light casements, with two at each end and two flanking the center. The doors are boarded and have small flat hoods above, positioned towards each end, while the center door is painted. The rear of the building has five half-hipped gables.
Local climate
Reed's Cottages 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
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