Crossways Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Crossways Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-alcove-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Crossways Cottage, 56, Firle, Lewes, BN8 6LG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 466 079
- Coordinates
- 50.85208, 0.08181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crossways Cottage is an early 18th-century building, originally with two storeys and two windows, and later extended with a hipped attic dormer. It is constructed with a flint facade and red brick dressings and quoins, and has a tiled roof. The windows are casements with diamond-shaped panes. A modern red brick porch has been added.
Local climate
Crossways Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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