Mount Pleasant Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Mount Pleasant Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-rubble-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mount Pleasant Cottage, Chalvington with Ripe, BN27 3TB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 529 105
- Coordinates
- 50.87404, 0.17289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Pleasant Cottage is a 17th-century or earlier timber-framed cottage. It was later refaced with brick on the ground floor and painted, and the upper floor is tile-hung. The roof is hipped and thatched, with a pentice to the south side. The windows are casement windows. A notable feature is the gryphon crest of the Duke family of Laughton Lodge. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows.
Local climate
Mount Pleasant Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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