Kent Cottage the Old Bakery the Polhills is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage.
Kent Cottage the Old Bakery the Polhills
- WRENN ID
- stark-pilaster-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kent Cottage the Old Bakery the Polhills, Bodiam Road, Ewhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 781 224
- Coordinates
- 50.97369, 0.53592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kent Cottage, The Old Bakery, and The Polhills are three 18th century cottages located on Bodiam Road in Staplecross. They are two storeys high and feature a total of seven windows. The cottages are constructed of painted brick and have a string course and an eaves cornice made of brick cogging. The roofs are half-hipped and tiled, and the windows are casement style.
Local climate
Kent Cottage the Old Bakery the Polhills receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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