Rimswell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1976. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Rimswell Cottage

WRENN ID
south-truss-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Rimswell Cottage, Church Street, Bexhill-On-Sea
OS grid reference
TQ 745 080
Coordinates
50.84568, 0.47851
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rimswell Cottage is a 18th century building located on Church Street in Old Town. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is faced with tarred weatherboarding and has an eaves cornice. The doorway is topped with a flat hood and has a door made up of six moulded and fielded panels. Rimswell Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 5 (consecutive), No 5A, St Peter's Church, and Nos 6 to 15 (consecutive).

Local climate

Rimswell 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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