Gainsborough Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1981. Cottage.
Gainsborough Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-chapel-birch
- 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
- Gainsborough Cottage, Herstmonceux
- OS grid reference
- TQ 624 130
- Coordinates
- 50.89421, 0.30863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gainsborough Cottage is likely a 17th-century building that stands two storeys tall and features three windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with grey headers, while the upper storey is tile-hung. The roof is hipped and tiled, and the cottage has casement windows.
Local climate
Gainsborough 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
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- 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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