Browndown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1981. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Browndown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-hearth-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Browndown Cottage, Heathfield and Waldron, TN21 9BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 602 201
- Coordinates
- 50.95859, 0.28078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Browndown Cottage is a 17th century or earlier building, originally serving as a pest house. It is timber-framed and was later refaced with red brick on the ground floor, with the upper floor covered in tile hanging. The roof is hipped and thatched. The cottage has two storeys and four casement windows.
Local climate
Browndown 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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