Thornton Cottage Thornton House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Thornton Cottage Thornton House
- WRENN ID
- pale-screen-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thornton Cottage Thornton House, Station Road, Northiam, TN31 6LB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 825 249
- Coordinates
- 50.99463, 0.6
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornton Cottage and Thornton House form one building in an L-shape. The original east wing dates to the 17th century, while the southwest wing (Thornton House) is a later 18th-century addition. The east wing is two storeys high and has three windows, featuring weather-boarding painted in horizontal black and white stripes and a tiled roof. Casement windows are present. The two-window southwest wing (Thornton House) is constructed of red brick and retains its original glazing bars.
Local climate
Thornton Cottage Thornton House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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