Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- under-garret-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottages, 1 and 2, Whitewell Lane, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 369
- Coordinates
- 51.10385, 0.53725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottages, consisting of Nos. 1 and 2, is a pair of cottages dated 1887, designed in a vernacular revival style by Mervyn Macartney. The cottages feature a red brick ground floor and a first floor that is decorated with plain and decorative tile-hanging, which sweeps out over the ground floor like a bell case. They have a plain tiled half-hipped roof with gablets. The buildings are 1½ storeys tall and include two gabled oriel-type semi-dormers that are weatherboarded and supported by brackets, featuring Ipswich glazing that is decoratively latticed. The barge boards and decorative pendants are positioned below a moulded bressummer and the windows. On the ground floor, there are two wood-framed lattice casement windows. The entrance is located to the right, featuring a panelled door, with a half-glazed door to the left, both set in recessed porches with brick side walls and wood side walls, although the left side is now closed in.
Local climate
Oak Cottages 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
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- Radon risk assessment
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