Blacksmiths Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Cottage.

Blacksmiths Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-latch-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
Cottage
Address
Blacksmiths Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 369 024
Coordinates
50.80542, -0.05773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blacksmith's Cottage, located on Vicarage Lane in Rottingdean, is likely originally two cottages dating from the 18th century. The building features a combination of plaster and weatherboarding, with a tiled roof and brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The entrance is flat-arched and is part of a 20th-century weatherboarded outshut. The windows are also flat-arched, with the first-floor windows having horizontal sliding sashes. The roof has two slightly raised hips running south, and the stacks at the east and west ends have been rebuilt. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Blacksmiths Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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