Kemps Olivers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Kemps Olivers Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-glass-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Kemps Olivers Cottage, Lower High Street, Wadhurst, TN5 6AY
OS grid reference
TQ 642 316
Coordinates
51.06032, 0.34283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kemps Olivers Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Lower High Street in Wadhurst. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper part is tile hung. The cottage has a tiled roof with a central chimney that has three brick shafts, which are octagonal at the base and round at the top. The east gable end is weather-boarded.

Local climate

Kemps Olivers Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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