Wren Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1989. A C19 House. 3 related planning applications.
Wren Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-tin-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wren Cottage, New England Lane, Playden, TN31 7NT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 922 215
- Coordinates
- 50.96139, 0.73635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Cottage is a house built in 1820, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is roughcast and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is one storey high and has three bays, with the left bay possibly being a 19th-century addition. There is an added wing at the rear right. The front has three 16-pane sash windows and a boarded stable door located between the two on the right. A stack is positioned at the right end.
At the rear, the central bay contains a 12-pane sash window, while the right-hand bay, which is set back, has a 20th-century door and window. The left wing features a late 20th-century porch, which is not of special interest, along with a cambered-headed window and a hipped roof that has a stack in the right roof pitch. The left side of the cottage has a 16-pane sash window. This cottage was built for a retired army sergeant-major.
Local climate
Wren Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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