Whipping Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Detached house.
Whipping Post House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-timber-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1971
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Whipping Post House, Whipping Post Lane, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 369 024
- Coordinates
- 50.80575, -0.05811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whipping Post House is a detached house from the 18th century, located on Whipping Post Lane in Rottingdean, Brighton. The exterior is rendered with a tiled roof and features two storeys and two windows. The entrance has a flat arch, and there are three flat-arched windows of similar size on the ground floor, along with an angled tile-hung oriel that was added in the 20th century to the left. On the first floor, there are two flat-arched windows. The roof is half-hipped and includes end and ridge stacks, with a single-storey gabled range to the north. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Whipping Post House 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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