Pigwidgen Cottage Spotted Cow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. A Medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Pigwidgen Cottage Spotted Cow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-trefoil-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Pigwidgen Cottage Spotted Cow Cottage, Albourne Road, Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common, BN6 9ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 272 167
- Coordinates
- 50.93577, -0.1904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pigwidgen Cottage and Spotted Cow Cottage form one building. Pigwidgen Cottage is a 15th-century timber-framed Wealden cottage, with plaster infilling between the timber. The first floor of each end oversails, and the central section is recessed. Spotted Cow Cottage is a later addition. Its east end is 17th-century and timber-framed, while the west end dates to the 18th century and features painted brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging above. The entire building has a tiled roof and casement windows. It is two storeys high and has five windows.
Local climate
Pigwidgen Cottage Spotted Cow 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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