Court House and Numbers 1 and 2 Court House Close is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. A Georgian House. 5 related planning applications.
Court House and Numbers 1 and 2 Court House Close
- WRENN ID
- lost-frieze-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Court House and Numbers 1 and 2 Court House Close, the Green, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 7HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 368 026
- Coordinates
- 50.80748, -0.05963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century court house, which presents as a single house and is adjoined by Court House Close. The building is constructed of dressed flints on a base of cobbles, with stucco finishes and a tile roof.
The exterior is two storeys and five windows wide, a double-fronted design. A central porch features chamfered columns and a spreading cap supporting an entablature with a band of bolection-moulded brackets. The panelled doorcase has a flat-arched entrance, a fanlight with intersecting tracery, and a panelled door of original design. Brick quoins are visible on the right-hand side and the ground floor of the left-hand side, while the first floor on the left is rendered. All windows are flat-arched with plain stuccoed architraves and a minimal cornice above the ground-floor windows. A moulded eaves cornice runs the length of the building, and there are end stacks of red brick. The court house was originally the farmhouse of Court House Farm.
Number 1 Court House Close is a lower wing to the east of the main house, rendered with a tile roof and featuring original sash windows. Number 2 Court House Close is attached to the rear of the court house and has painted cobbles with brick dressings, covered by a tile roof. It is two storeys high with a single window facing The Green, where the segmental-arched openings have been renewed. A single-storey gabled wing projects forward to the road and currently serves as a garage.
The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Court House and Numbers 1 and 2 Court House Close receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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