Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A Post-medieval House.
Tower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-column-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Tower Cottage, High Street, Icklesham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 906 174
- Coordinates
- 50.92461, 0.71163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Cottage is a building from the 17th century or earlier, featuring two parallel ranges and two L-wings at the back. It stands two storeys high and has three windows. The exterior is tile-hung, using alternate courses of curved and square tiles, and it has an eaves cornice and a tiled roof. The windows are casement style with small square leaded panes. The doorway, dating from the 18th century, has a flat hood supported on brackets and a door with six moulded and fielded panels. Notably, the actress Ellen Terry lived here for several years.
Local climate
Tower 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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