Ashburnham Furnace (Pay Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Furnace. 1 related planning application.
Ashburnham Furnace (Pay Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- odd-storey-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Furnace
- Address
- Ashburnham Furnace (Pay Cottage), 1, 2 and 3, Lakehurst Lane, TN33 9PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 684 170
- Coordinates
- 50.92862, 0.39609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former furnace, now comprising three 17th and 18th century cottages known as Ashburnham Furnace (Pay Cottage). The main part of the building, incorporating the north-east and central cottages, is timber-framed. An 18th-century addition, serving as the south-west cottage, was added later. The entire structure is faced with red brick with grey headers on the ground floor and tile hanging above. It has a tiled roof. Casement windows feature diamond-shaped leaded lights. The building is two storeys high and has four windows. The 18th-century addition has a half-hipped gable end with an attic window and a doorway sheltered by a flat hood supported on brackets. This furnace was the last in Sussex to smelt iron, remaining operational as late as 1825, although most other Sussex furnaces had ceased working around 50 years prior.
Local climate
Ashburnham Furnace (Pay Cottage) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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