Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Cottage, former public house.
Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lone-cobble-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- Cottage, former public house
- Address
- Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages, the Street, Poynings, Mid Sussex
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 120
- Coordinates
- 50.89373, -0.20676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages are two cottages that were formerly a public house. Number 1 is a purpose-built public house dating from the early to mid 19th century, while Number 2 is a timber-framed cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier.
Number 1 features a stuccoed exterior with incised lines that mimic masonry. It has a hipped tiled roof sloping to the south, with one external rendered chimneystack on the north side and a larger stack on the south. The building has two storeys and a basement. On the first floor, there is one six-pane sash window with horns, and on the ground floor, there are two canted bays with horned sashes and a four-panelled door accessed by four cemented steps.
Number 2 is timber-framed, with red brick cladding on the ground floor and tile-hanging above, featuring a south wing constructed in header bond brickwork. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof and two storeys with two windows. Most of the windows are from the 20th century, but there is one early 19th-century sliding casement window on the west front and two on the north front. The doors on the east and west sides are plank doors.
Inside, Number 2 has an exposed frame with a midrail and exposed floor joists. There are several plank doors, including one three-plank door from the 17th century, an early 19th-century basket grate, and an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer and brackets.
Local climate
Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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