Shirley Cottage the Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1953. House.
Shirley Cottage the Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-obsidian-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shirley Cottage the Old Cottage, High Street, Mayfield and Five Ashes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 586 269
- Coordinates
- 51.0203, 0.26105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shirley Cottage and The Old Cottage is a single building dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster infilling, and the timbering is still visible in the upper storeys of The Old Cottage, while the ground floor has been built out. Shirley Cottage has been refronted with red brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging above. The Old Cottage includes a projecting gable. The building has a tiled roof and casement windows with small square panes on the first floor, while the ground floor has modern windows. It stands two storeys high with an attic in the gable and has four windows in total.
Local climate
Shirley Cottage the Old Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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