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

Rainbows End

WRENN ID
rough-span-clover
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
Rainbows End, 3, Bray's Hill, Ashburnham
OS grid reference
TQ 673 142
Coordinates
50.90377, 0.37873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rainbow's End, also known as No. 4 Bray's Hill, is a pair of cottages dating from the early 19th century, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The ground floor features Flemish bond brickwork with grey headers, while No. 3 is painted. The first floor is tile-hung, and both cottages have a peg-tiled roof with external brick chimneystacks at the ends. Originally designed with two windows, they now have four.

The exterior of No. 4 includes one window with an original architrave on both the ground and first floors, with the first-floor window being a 19th-century pintle-hinged leaded light window. Additionally, No. 4 has a 19th-century gabled weatherboarded porch with a tiled roof and an original plank door. In contrast, No. 3 features a very small window in the center of the first floor, a late 20th-century wooden casement window to the right, and a smaller late 20th-century casement window at the extreme right. The ground floor of No. 3 has a late 20th-century re-sited wooden casement window and a weatherboarded porch with a gabled tiled roof. There is also a late 20th-century extension at the rear of No. 3, built with matching materials.

Inside, No. 4 reportedly has an original wooden half-winder staircase. No. 3 has a re-sited 20th-century staircase, modern doors, and re-sited partitions, but retains its original roof with reused timbers that have redundant mortise holes. The ground floor front room features exposed floor joists of thin scantling and a brick floor.

Local climate

Rainbows End receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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