Scullsgate 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.
Scullsgate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-timber-nightshade
- 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
- Scullsgate Cottage, Hinksden Lane, Benenden, TN17 4LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 792 323
- Coordinates
- 51.06273, 0.55675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scullsgate Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with additions and alterations from the 18th or 19th century and around 1920. The front of the cottage is clad in red brick on the ground floor and tile hung above, topped with a tiled roof. It is two storeys high and features two windows on the front. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a central doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets. The left side elevation has three casements and is also tile hung, with some windows containing old glass. There is an outshut on the right-hand side. Inside, the cottage has a 16th-century gunstock jowled post and a curved tension brace, along with a shutter groove. The original house was likely composed of three bays, with one additional bay added in the 18th century. There is an open fireplace with an 18th-century bressumer.
Local climate
Scullsgate 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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