Royal Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage.
Royal Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-hearth-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Royal Oak Cottage, High Street, Balcombe
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 321
- Coordinates
- 51.074, -0.15389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Royal Oak Cottage is a late 16th century timber-framed building that was enlarged in the early 17th century. It has two storeys and features three windows. The ground floor is faced with red brick, while the upper floor is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, and the windows are casement style.
Local climate
Royal Oak 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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