Pondtail Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage.

Pondtail Cottage

WRENN ID
haunted-sill-russet
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
Pondtail Cottage, Deak's Lane, Ansty and Staplefield
OS grid reference
TQ 288 243
Coordinates
51.0037, -0.16537
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pondtail Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed cottage featuring plaster infilling, with the ground floor rebuilt in painted brick. The cottage has a tiled roof and casement windows, and it stands two storeys tall with two windows.

Local climate

Pondtail Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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