Croft View Cottage Freshfields the Old Poor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Croft View Cottage Freshfields the Old Poor House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-bailey-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Croft View Cottage Freshfields the Old Poor House, Rodmell, Lewes, BN7 3HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 420 063
- Coordinates
- 50.83929, 0.01668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft View Cottage and The Old Poor House date to 1810 and were originally the parish poor-house. The building is two storeys high with a four-window front. It is faced with flints and has red brick dressings and quoins. The roof is tiled and half-hipped. Windows are horizontally-sliding sash windows, some of which are modern. A stone plaque displays the date 1810 and the initials “RP”.
Local climate
Croft View Cottage Freshfields the Old Poor House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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