Underhill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Cottage pair.
Underhill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tracery-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage pair
- Address
- Underhill Cottages, Balcombes Hill, Goudhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 722 373
- Coordinates
- 51.1094, 0.45944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Underhill Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. They are timber framed and weather-boarded, with a red brick ground floor and a plain tiled roof. The cottages stand two storeys high on a rendered plinth and feature a half-hipped roof. The roof on the right side is stepped up at the centre left, where there is a large ridge stack. The first floor has five wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has four casement windows and boarded doors located to the centre left and centre right.
Local climate
Underhill 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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