Curls Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. A Post-medieval Cottage.

Curls Cottages

WRENN ID
tall-string-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1966
Type
Cottage
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Curls Cottages, Main Street, Chalvington with Ripe
OS grid reference
TQ 510 101
Coordinates
50.87091, 0.1451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Curls Cottages is a building that likely dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is probably timber-framed but has been refaced with brick on the ground floor, which is now painted, while the upper part is tile-hung. The building features a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with a pentice at the back. It has casement windows and stands two storeys tall, with three windows in total.

Local climate

Curls Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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