The Little Shop Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Residential building.

The Little Shop Virginia Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-alcove-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Residential building
Address
The Little Shop Virginia Cottage, Dixter Road, Northiam
OS grid reference
TQ 825 248
Coordinates
50.99426, 0.59987
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Little Shop and Virginia Cottage is a building from the 18th century, standing two storeys tall with two windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper floor is tile-hung. It features a tiled roof, and only the vertical glazing bars remain intact.

Local climate

The Little Shop Virginia 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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