Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-railing-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, the Street, Sedlescombe, TN33 0QD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 781 178
- Coordinates
- 50.93259, 0.53416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is an early 18th century building, or possibly older. The front features a plaster finish that is covered with imitation timbering, and the date 1737 is painted on it. The cottage has a half-hipped tiled roof and casement windows. The doorway includes a door made up of six fielded panels. The building stands two storeys high and has three windows.
Local climate
Fir Tree 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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