The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place to West of the House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1952. Cottage, gateway.
The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place to West of the House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-hearth-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1952
- Type
- Cottage, gateway
- Address
- The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place to West of the House, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 359 134
- Coordinates
- 50.9043, -0.06758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1928 for Edward Hudson, serve as the main entrance to the garden, located opposite the main entrance to the house. The structure features an archway, flanked by single-storeyed L-shaped cottages. The central portion is made of red brick and includes a doorway on the outer side, which is set in a moulded wooden architrave with a pulvinated frieze and pediment. On the inner side, there is an archway shaped like a Venetian window supported by Ionic columns. The cottages are clad in weatherboarding above a red brick base and have hipped tiled roofs. Each wing of the L-shaped cottages has twin brick chimney stacks on rectangular bases. There are three sash windows with hipped roofs on each side of the gateway facing west, along with three hipped dormers on each side facing east.
Local climate
The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place to West of the House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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