Aladdin's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 2001. Cottage, barn, tearooms, holiday accommodation. 1 related planning application.

Aladdin's Cottage

WRENN ID
lapsed-pier-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 2001
Type
Cottage, barn, tearooms, holiday accommodation
Address
Aladdin's Cottage, Stunts Green, Herstmonceux, BN27 4PR
OS grid reference
TQ 620 132
Coordinates
50.89641, 0.30233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Aladdin's Cottage is a Grade II listed building originally constructed as a threshing barn in the early 17th century. It has since been used as tearooms and is now holiday accommodation. The building was modified in the 1920s and again around 1983. It features a timber frame that is now clad in 20th-century brickwork, except for the southwest side, which retains 17th-century brickwork in English garden wall bond. The cottage has a steeply pitched thatched roof with an early 20th-century chimneystack added to the southwest. It is a single storey with an attic that was inserted around 1983. The front of the cottage has a gabled midstrey with a 1983 eyebrow dormer above and three 20th-century casement windows with leaded lights. The rear elevation includes four 20th-century casement windows. Attached to the southwest is a converted animal house, which is not of special interest.

The building has a three-bay plan, with an aisle to the northwest. Inside, the timber frame features a midrail and curved braces in the wall frame. The aisle posts are mostly intact, although one has been partially renewed in brickwork, and they include curved tension braces. The roof consists of a collar beam, purlins, and original pegged rafters without a ridgepiece. An open fireplace from the 1920s has been inserted, along with room partitions and a ceiling that were added around 1983, all in a matching style.

Local climate

Aladdin's Cottage 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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