Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rampart-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Church Lane, Albourne, BN6 9BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 263 164
- Coordinates
- 50.93385, -0.20392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building with red brick infilling, located on Albourne Church Lane. It features a tiled roof and casement windows, and is one storey high with an attic. The cottage has two windows and two gabled dormers. On the north wall, there is a red brick chimney breast with offsets, which has a stone inset inscribed with the words: "The tenants of this manor has 'sic' the right to fetch water at this spring MDCCCIIICII".
Local climate
Spring Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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