St Nicholas Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. A C19 House. 3 related planning applications.
St Nicholas Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rusted-niche-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Nicholas Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Houghton, Arun, BN18 9LW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 020 115
- Coordinates
- 50.89439, -0.5504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Nicholas Cottages, originally built as the Vicarage in 1849 by the Duke of Norfolk, comprise two parallel ranges. The building is two storeys high and has two windows. It is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in slate, with gabled ends facing north and south. The windows are casement windows with latticed panes. A gabled porch is located on the west front. Above this porch is a small gable above the first-floor window, bearing a plaque displaying the date 1849, the letter 'N', and a coronet.
Local climate
St Nicholas Cottages 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 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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