Pelham Cottage (Next Door to Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Eastbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1971. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Pelham Cottage (Next Door to Post Office)

WRENN ID
last-entrance-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Eastbourne
Constituency
Eastbourne MP: Josh Babarinde (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1971
Type
Cottage
Address
Pelham Cottage (Next Door to Post Office), Wish Hill, Willingdon, BN20 9HL
OS grid reference
TQ 587 022
Coordinates
50.79843, 0.2514
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pelham Cottage, located next door to the Post Office on Wish Hill in Willingdon, is reputed to be one of the oldest houses in the village and was formerly a bakehouse. The building is constructed of flint and features a hipped tile roof. It stands two storeys high and has two windows with flat arched casements. The ground floor windows are modern and have brick architraves. The cottage also has red brick rusticated quoins. The rear of the building has been much altered, with the roof extending over a projecting addition. Pelham Cottage is included in a group listing with Malthouse Cottage, Old Barn Close, the Post Office, Nos 122, 124, and 126, and Nos 1-4 Malthouse Cottages.

Local climate

Pelham Cottage (Next Door to Post Office) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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