Garden Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1965. Cottage.

Garden Cottages

WRENN ID
hushed-storey-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1965
Type
Cottage
Address
Garden Cottages, Hamsey, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 399 123
Coordinates
50.89349, -0.01212
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden Cottages is a building dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper storey is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows, some of which have small square panes. A flint chimney breast is located on the west wall.

Local climate

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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