Abbot's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.
Abbot's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-sill-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbot's Cottage, 4, Upper Lake, Battle, TN33 0AN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 751 157
- Coordinates
- 50.91457, 0.4898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbot's Cottage is a 14th-century timber-framed building that has been refaced with painted brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above. It features a tiled roof and has modern shop windows, with a total of four windows across two storeys. The building includes a crown-post roof, partly dating from the 14th century. Notably, John Hammond, the last Abbot of Battle, lived here for eight years after the Dissolution and passed away in this residence.
Local climate
Abbot's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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