Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1981. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-pedestal-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse, West End, Herstmonceux, BN27 4NN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 633 126
- Coordinates
- 50.89012, 0.32141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of cottages, likely originally a lobby-entrance house, dating probably to the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The timber frame is clad in weatherboarding, with a tile-hung extension to the rear of The Old Bakehouse. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, but may originally have been thatched, with a central brick chimney stack. The Old Bakehouse has an external chimney stack to the rear, and Ray's Cottage has an external chimney stack to the side. The cottages have two storeys and two windows. The Old Bakehouse has a 19th-century triple sliding window to the first floor, a triple casement window to the ground floor, and a left-side doorcase with a weather hood. Ray's Cottage has a 19th-century casement window to the first floor. The ground floor of Ray's Cottage has 20th-century casement windows and a central plank door under a wooden penticed weather hood. An outshut to Ray’s Cottage features an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer and exposed floor joists, a series of plank doors, and a winder staircase located behind an early 19th-century plank door.
Local climate
Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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