Old School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage.
Old School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-parapet-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old School Cottage, School Lane, Pyecombe, Brighton, West Sussex, Mid Sussex, BN45 7FQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 126
- Coordinates
- 50.89897, -0.16321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old School Cottage, originally the village school, dates from the early 19th century. It is a single-storey building with four windows, finished in stucco and topped with a slate roof. The sash windows, each featuring 30 panes, retain their glazing bars and are complemented by wooden shutters that have heart-shaped openings and ornamental hinges.
Local climate
Old School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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