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

The Cottage

WRENN ID
silver-joist-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Reader's Lane, Iden
OS grid reference
TQ 914 244
Coordinates
50.98786, 0.72595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall and features two windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper storey is tile-hung. It has a tiled roof and casement windows. The doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets.

Local climate

The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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