The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1974. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-solder-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 2, Queen Street, Arundel, Arun
- OS grid reference
- TQ 020 069
- Coordinates
- 50.85277, -0.55149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a building dating from 1789, constructed with nodular flint and red brick dressings. The first floor of the east elevation is tile-hung, and the building features a hipped tile roof and a red brick chimney. It stands two storeys high and has a brick modillion eaves cornice. The south elevation includes two segment-headed casement windows with glazing bars on the first floor and one on the ground floor, along with a door that is concealed by a modern porch. The east elevation has modern openings, and there is a catslide roof to the north. A two-storey outhouse is located to the north, also built with nodular flint and red brick dressings, and it has a modern pitched roof. The former loft door opening on the first floor has been filled in with a modern window.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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