Fig Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1981. A C17 House.
Fig Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-mantel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fig Tree Cottage, Lower Street, Ninfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 707 120
- Coordinates
- 50.88233, 0.42554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fig Tree Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Lower Street in Ninfield. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is faced with weather-boarding and has a tiled roof. The cottage has casement windows and a doorway that is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. At the south end, there is a later addition of one window bay that includes sash windows, which still retain their glazing bars.
Local climate
Fig Tree Cottage 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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