Wishing Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Wishing Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
western-bastion-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Wishing Tree Cottage, Mill Corner, Northiam, TN31 6HU
OS grid reference
TQ 823 234
Coordinates
50.98179, 0.59668
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wishing Tree Cottage is a two-storey cottage with an attic, located at Mill Corner in Northiam. It features a board inscribed 'T R S 1720'. The cottage has four windows and two dormers. The exterior is weather-boarded, and the roof, which was originally thatched, is now tiled and has two eyebrow dormers. The windows are casement style and have wooden shutters. There is a modern porch added to the entrance.

Local climate

Wishing Tree 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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