Court House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Court House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-granite-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Court House Cottage, Ditchling Road, St. John (Without), Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 385 127
- Coordinates
- 50.8978, -0.03104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court House Cottage is a building that likely began as two separate cottages and now forms a half-H-shaped structure. It features a recessed center with one storey and two windows, flanked by gabled projecting wings that are two storeys high, each with one window. The exterior is faced with flints, accented by red brick dressings and quoins, and it has a tiled roof. The windows are casement style. The east wing was originally a toll cottage, likely built as a single storey. There is a small square opening in the west wall of its projection that has been blocked; this was where tolls were collected. The first floor of the east wing was probably added or refaced in the 19th century, along with the center portion and the matching west wing, while the ground floor of the west wing dates back to the 18th century.
Local climate
Court House Cottage 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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