Smuggler's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 6 related planning applications.
Smuggler's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-window-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smuggler's Cottage, Church Road, Westbourne, PO10 8UA
- OS grid reference
- SU 755 074
- Coordinates
- 50.86137, -0.92736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smuggler's Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed building. The north wall displays exposed timbering with painted brick infilling, but it has been partly refaced with flints and red brick dressings. The cottage also features quoins and a stringcourse. It has a half-hipped tiled roof and casement windows. A later gabled porch has been added. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows.
Local climate
Smuggler's Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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