Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-cloister-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Sussex Road, Buriton, East Hampshire, GU31 5RD
- OS grid reference
- SU 760 212
- Coordinates
- 50.98549, -0.91792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, largely re-clad in the 18th century, with 20th-century ground floor extensions. The walls are painted rubble stone, with one cambered arch to a ground-floor opening, and later painted brickwork. It has a steep tile roof with hipped and half-hipped sections, including a dormer with a sloping roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and has an irregular arrangement of casement windows. A 20th-century gabled brick porch has been added.
Local climate
Rock Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 1998
- 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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