Wool Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. A C17 House.
Wool Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-courtyard-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wool Cottage, Wool Lane, Midhurst, Chichester, GU29 9BX
- OS grid reference
- SU 886 214
- Coordinates
- 50.98584, -0.73906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wool Cottage is a house that has been restored and dates back to the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster infilling, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in stone. The first floor extends out over the ground floor and is tile-hung on the south half. The roof is tiled, and the house has casement windows. It is two storeys high and has three windows.
Local climate
Wool Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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