Oak Cottage and the Old Post is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage and the Old Post
- WRENN ID
- distant-bonework-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage and the Old Post, the Street, Slaugham, RH17 5TR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 258
- Coordinates
- 51.01887, -0.21976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage and The Old Post is an L-shaped building dating from the 17th century or earlier. It stands two storeys high and features three windows. The ground floor is faced with red brick, while the west wing is constructed from stone and is hung with fishscale tiles above. The roof is made of Horsham slabs, and the building has casement windows, including a lunette window on the first floor of the south front.
Local climate
Oak Cottage and the Old Post 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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