Blackwater Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Crawley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1983. Cottage.
Blackwater Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-portal-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Crawley
- Constituency
- Crawley MP: Peter Lamb (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackwater Cottage, Blackwater Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 364
- Coordinates
- 51.11236, -0.15528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackwater Cottage is a late 17th century to early 18th century cottage that stands two storeys tall. The ground floor is made of brick, which has been painted, while the first floor is tile hung. The north gable end is weather-boarded. The cottage features an old tiled roof that is hipped at the north end and has a chimney stack dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. The windows include wooden casements with glazing bars at the south end and leaded casements on the first floor at the east end. There is a simple doorcase. Inside, the cottage has exposed beams and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Blackwater Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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