Fir Tree Cottage Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. House.

Fir Tree Cottage Virginia Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-chapel-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1982
Type
House
Address
Fir Tree Cottage Virginia Cottage, Church Street, Rotherfield
OS grid reference
TQ 555 297
Coordinates
51.04623, 0.2172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree Cottage and Virginia Cottage is a 16th century timber-framed building that is now covered in tiles on a stone base. It features a tiled roof and casement windows. On the first floor, there is a plaster plaque that originally displayed an Egyptian figure, though it is now barely visible. Fir Tree Cottage has a doorway with a flat hood above it, while Virginia Cottage has a gabled porch. The building has two storeys and contains five windows.

Local climate

Fir Tree Cottage Virginia Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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