Lake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Lake Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-timber-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Lake Cottage, Glynde, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 459 103
Coordinates
50.87442, 0.07269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lake Cottage, dated 1742, is a two-storey building with an attic. It features four windows and two gabled dormers. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper level is tile-hung. The roof is tiled. The cottage has casement windows and a brick gabled porch. Above the porch, the date 1742 and the initials BHM are displayed.

Local climate

Lake Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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