The Monks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
The Monks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-granite-mallow
- 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
- The Monks Cottage, 20, 21 and 22, Upper Lake, Battle, TN33 0AN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 751 157
- Coordinates
- 50.91441, 0.48961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monks Cottage is a building from the 18th century located on the south side of Upper Lake in Battle. It has two storeys and features four windows. The structure is primarily made of red brick, with Nos 21 and 22 also incorporating grey headers. There is a painted stringcourse and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The roof is tiled, and most of the glazing bars are missing. The doorways are topped with flat hoods supported by brackets.
Local climate
The Monks 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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