The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gateway-cobweb
- 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
- The Old Cottage, Cuckfield Road, Ansty and Staplefield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 232
- Coordinates
- 50.99439, -0.16153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located on Cuckfield Road in Anstye. It features plaster infilling and curved braces, with the ground floor rebuilt in painted brick. The cottage has a hipped tiled roof and casement windows, and it stands two storeys high with two windows.
Local climate
The Old 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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