Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-gateway-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage, West Street, Mayfield and Five Ashes, TN20 6DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 584 268
- Coordinates
- 51.01924, 0.25762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building consists of three cottages, originally a timber-framed house likely dating from the 16th to early 17th century, with later 19th or early 20th century refacing. The ground floors are of chequer brick, while the first floors are tile-hung on Wychwood, and weatherboarded on Tewcot and Guppy’s. The roof is tiled and hipped, with a red brick stack set back from the rear pitch. A catslide roof is present at the rear, and has been built up in Guppy’s.
The cottages have one, two, and one windows respectively, facing south. They feature transomed three-light windows on the ground floor and sash windows on the first floor, generally without glazing bars. Tewcot has an old wooden boarded door with cover strips; Wychwood has a six-panel door; and Guppy's has a modern porch. A single-storey extension with a plain tile roof and crest tiles is located on the southwest side of Tewcot and formerly served as a cobbler’s shop.
The interior retains significant timber framing from the original 16th or early 17th century house, including posts with approximately three-foot jowls descending to the ground floor, visible in the rear wall of Guppy’s and the front and rear walls of Tewcot. Walls of square timber framing with straight braces along the rear wall are also visible. Timber-framed internal partition walls are present, as are stopped and chamfered ceiling beams. Wychwood features a large inglenook fireplace with a projecting stone chimney breast that extends alongside Guppy’s. An old ledged door is found in Tewcot.
Local climate
Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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