Jacob's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. House.
Jacob's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-brick-quill
- 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
- Jacob's Cottage, Powdermill Lane, Sedlescombe
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 191
- Coordinates
- 50.94412, 0.55809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jacob's Cottage is a former pair of cottages that has been converted into a single house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and features a timber-framed structure with plaster infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick. The building has a hipped tiled roof and includes casement windows. It stands two storeys tall and has four windows.
Local climate
Jacob's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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