Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-steel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Cottage, Chichester Road, West Dean, PO18 0RX
- OS grid reference
- SU 868 128
- Coordinates
- 50.90893, -0.76643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottage, dated 1815, is a two-storey building with a unique eight-sided, stretched octagon shape. The exterior is faced with knapped flints, and it features a hipped thatched roof that has two 'eyebrows'. The windows are casement style. A glass verandah has been added to the ground floor.
Local climate
Park Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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