Melbourne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1973. Cottage.
Melbourne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-roof-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Melbourne Cottage, the Street, Plaistow
- OS grid reference
- TQ 004 308
- Coordinates
- 51.06839, -0.56737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbourne Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with painted brick infilling, while the end wall has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is tile-hung above. The roof is tiled, and the cottage has casement windows. It stands two storeys tall and has two windows.
Local climate
Melbourne Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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