Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-bastion-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, 1-3, Yapton Lane, Walberton, Arun, BN18 0LS
- OS grid reference
- SU 977 064
- Coordinates
- 50.84912, -0.61329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swiss Cottage is a mid-19th century building designed to resemble a timber-framed structure, forming an L-shape. It has six windows and is two stories high. The ground floor is faced with cobbles laid in a galletting pattern. The upper floor exhibits red and white brickwork with decorative timber panels. The northwest wing is tile-hung, featuring a gable with scalloped bargeboards. The roof is tiled, and the windows are casement style. The south wing contains three gabled dormers and three porches, each with a sloping tiled roof.
Local climate
Swiss 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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