Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-bonework-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Cottage, Long Man, Wealden, BN26 5SJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 545 045
- Coordinates
- 50.81974, 0.19227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Cottage is an 18th-century building of two storeys and three windows, situated on the west side of The Street in Wilmington. It is constructed with grey headers and red brick dressings, featuring quoins and a stringcourse. The roof is tiled, with intact glazing bars. A doorway is topped by a flat hood supported on brackets and incorporates a door of six fielded panels.
Local climate
Post Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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