Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-storey-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Cottage, Rodmell, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 420 064
- Coordinates
- 50.83979, 0.01649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a 17th century or earlier building located in Rodmell. It is faced with flints and features red brick dressings and quoins, while the west end is entirely made of red brick. The cottage has a hipped tiled roof and casement windows. A plaque from the Lion Fire Insurance Company, dated 1695, displays the initials "MC".
Local climate
Briar Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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, 8 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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