Petworth Cottage Museum and Ricketts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Petworth Cottage Museum and Ricketts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-mullion-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Petworth Cottage Museum and Ricketts Cottage, High Street, Chichester, GU28 0AU
- OS grid reference
- SU 978 216
- Coordinates
- 50.98555, -0.60785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Petworth Cottage Museum and Ricketts Cottage are two cottages that were originally known as Ricketts Cottage and No. 346 Leconfield Estate. They date from the 18th century and are constructed as one building. The cottages are two storeys high and feature three windows. The walls are made of stone rubble with ashlar quoins, and the sides are partly finished in red brick. The roof is tiled, although the glazing bars are missing from the windows.
Local climate
Petworth Cottage Museum and Ricketts Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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