Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. House.

Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
dim-steeple-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1983
Type
House
Address
Oak Cottage, the Street, Poynings, Mid Sussex
OS grid reference
TQ 263 119
Coordinates
50.89351, -0.20527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oak Cottage is a 17th-century L-shaped building located behind Forge House on the north-west side. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is made of painted brick, topped with a tiled roof. The cottage has casement windows and a gabled porch.

Local climate

Oak Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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