Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1965. A C16 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-flagstone-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1965
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Rodmell, Lewes, BN7 3HQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 420 063
- Coordinates
- 50.83897, 0.01546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed building featuring plaster infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt using red brick and flints, while the first floor on the southeast front is partly tile-hung and partly weatherboarded. It has a hipped thatched roof and is two storeys tall with five windows, which include casement windows and horizontally-sliding sash windows.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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