St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Former rectory, dwelling.

St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory

WRENN ID
fading-portal-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lewes
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1976
Type
Former rectory, dwelling
Address
St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory, Church Hill, Newhaven
OS grid reference
TQ 442 010
Coordinates
50.79137, 0.04468
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Michael's Cottage, formerly known as The Old Rectory, is a building that dates from around 1800, though it may be older. It has been converted into two dwellings. The exterior features stucco with a rendered plinth, a tile-hung front on the southeast side, painted brick on the northwest side, and painted unknapped flint on the service wing, which is St Michael's Cottage. The main elevation has a tiled roof behind a parapet, with coped verges and tall rendered gable end stacks on the facade. The building has a parallel range with a projecting bay to the northwest and a service wing at the rear. It is two storeys high and has two bays, featuring 9-light sash windows with raised surrounds. These flank a central porch with wooden pilasters and a segmental-headed opening, which contains a half-glazed door. On the right side, there is a curved brick bay with one window on each floor; the first floor has a 16-pane sash window, while the ground floor has a 20-pane sash window that reaches to ground level. The slightly irregular placement of the windows on the facade suggests that the building may have been refaced from an earlier structure. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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