Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1971. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-brass-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Telscombe, Lewes, BN7 3HY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 405 034
- Coordinates
- 50.8136, -0.00667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed cottage that has been refaced with flints and features red brick dressings and quoins. The building has a half-hipped tiled roof and includes casement windows. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has four windows in total, along with one gabled dormer.
Local climate
Oak 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings