Torfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Torfield Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-minaret-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hastings
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Torfield Cottage, Old London Road, TN34 3HA
OS grid reference
TQ 828 100
Coordinates
50.86082, 0.59622
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Torfield Cottage is an early 18th-century building, significantly restored and converted from three cottages into a single dwelling. It has two storeys and four windows. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is of brick. The roof is tiled and hipped. The windows are restored 2-light and 3-light casements with glazing bars. A plain central door is sheltered by a gabled tiled hood. Modern French windows have been added to the ground floor on the left and right. It is reputed that Titus Oates lived here or in a house on this site.

Local climate

Torfield Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
  • 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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