Message Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1985. Cottage.
Message Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-granite-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Message Cottage, Plaistow Road, Kirdford
- OS grid reference
- TQ 014 276
- Coordinates
- 51.03935, -0.5541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Message Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century or earlier. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The exterior is constructed of red brick with grey headers, and it has a half-hipped tiled roof. The windows are casement style with diamond-shaped panes, and there is a porch with a hipped roof.
Local climate
Message Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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