Roadside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House.

Roadside Cottage

WRENN ID
proud-rood-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
House
Address
Roadside Cottage, Cranbrook, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2LX
OS grid reference
TQ 777 400
Coordinates
51.13211, 0.53948
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Roadside Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. A porch was added in the later 20th century.

The ground floor is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, while the upper floors are timber-framed, covered in weather-boarding on the north-west and north-east sides, and tile-hung on the south-east side. The cottage features a half-hipped tiled roof with a central ridge brick chimneystack.

The building is rectangular, two storeys high with attics, and consists of three bays. The entrance is located on the north-east side, with a chimneystack in the central bay and a staircase positioned behind it.

On the north-east or entrance front, there is a central first-floor casement window that lights the staircase and a ground-floor casement window for the sitting room. Much of the ground floor is hidden by a 20th-century brick porch with a hipped tiled roof, and the entrance is flanked by small windows. Both the north-west and south-east sides have a casement window on each floor. The ground floor window on the south-east side is a five-bay splayed casement window with a brick base and a hipped tiled roof. The south-west side is attached to Stream Cottage.

The interior, not inspected in 2015, includes a sitting room with an open fireplace and exposed ceiling beams. The first floor has two bedrooms, and there are two additional bedrooms in the attic.

Local climate

Roadside Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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