Malthouse Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.

Malthouse Cottages

WRENN ID
dusted-quoin-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottages
Address
Malthouse Cottages, Nos 1-4 Malthouse Cottages, Glynde, Lewes, BN8 6SU
OS grid reference
TQ 456 089
Coordinates
50.86193, 0.06867
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Malthouse Cottages, built in 1863, were erected by Henry Brand, who was the Speaker of the House of Commons and later became Viscount Hampden of Glynde Place. This building is two storeys high and features four windows. The exterior is faced with flints, complemented by red brick dressings and quoins, along with grey headers. It has a tiled roof and casement windows that have dripstones above them. The design includes two pairs of gables with a recess in the center and at each end. The central recess contains two doorways, while each end has one doorway, all of which also have dripstones above.

Local climate

Malthouse Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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, 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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