Rookery Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1965. Cottages. 1 related planning application.

Rookery Cottages

WRENN ID
first-bracket-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1965
Type
Cottages
Address
Rookery Cottages, Nos 1, 2 and 3 Rookery Cottages, Glynde, Lewes, BN8 6ST
OS grid reference
TQ 456 089
Coordinates
50.86198, 0.06817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rookery Cottages, consisting of Nos 1, 2, and 3, is a 16th-century timber-framed building that has mostly been refaced with flints, featuring red brick dressings and quoins. Part of the first floor on the north-east wall is plastered. The building has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof and is two storeys high, with five casement windows that have diamond-shaped panes.

Local climate

Rookery 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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