Bumble Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Bumble Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-lantern-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bumble Cottage, 28, South Lane, Houghton, Arun
- OS grid reference
- TQ 018 114
- Coordinates
- 50.89379, -0.55261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bumble Cottage is a former pair of cottages that has been converted into a single house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and features a timber-framed structure with plaster and painted brick infilling, along with curved braces. The ground floor is partly refaced with flints, which are now painted. The cottage has a hipped thatched roof and is two storeys tall, with three casement windows.
Local climate
Bumble Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
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- 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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