Cleveland Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House.

Cleveland Cottage

WRENN ID
still-rood-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1961
Type
House
Address
Cleveland Cottage, Friars Road, Icklesham
OS grid reference
TQ 905 172
Coordinates
50.92348, 0.70958
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cleveland Cottage is a 17th-century building located on the east side of Friars Road in Winchelsea. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is weather-boarded and topped with a slate roof. The cottage has casement windows with small square panes and includes a trellised wooden porch. A plaque on the building notes that the poet and author Ford Maddox Ford, who lived from 1873 to 1939, resided here.

Local climate

Cleveland Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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