1 and 2, Garden Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1988. A C19 Pair of houses. 5 related planning applications.
1 and 2, Garden Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solitary-crypt-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1988
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 1 and 2, Garden Cottages, Castle Banks, Lewes, BN7 1UX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 414 102
- Coordinates
- 50.87421, 0.00838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating from around 1830. The front is constructed of red brick with grey brick detailing, while the sides are flint with brick quoins and lacing courses. The roof is slate. The houses are two storeys high with a 4:2 window arrangement, featuring sash windows with mostly sixteen-pane glazing to the ground floor and twelve-pane glazing to the first floor. Each house has a paired doorcase with a semi-circular fanlight above a six-fielded panelled door.
Local climate
1 and 2, Garden Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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