The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Eastbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1949. Gallery. 11 related planning applications.
The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-clay-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne MP: Josh Babarinde (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- Gallery
- Address
- The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery, 9 and 11, Borough Lane, BN20 8BB
- OS grid reference
- TV 599 994
- Coordinates
- 50.77219, 0.26704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House, now The Towner Art Gallery, was built in 1743 and features two storeys and an attic with seven windows and three dormers. The exterior is constructed with grey headers and red brick dressings, complemented by a stringcourse of red brick and grey headers. A wooden cornice with modillions crowns the building, and it has a hipped slate roof with lead ridges.
The main entrance, originally a porch, is a doorway with Doric columns and a pediment, set into the thickness of the garden wall, leading into a passage that connects the house to the billiard room. The main front faces the garden to the south and includes a large bay with three windows on the first floor, supported by Doric columns below. The ground floor doorway features Doric pilasters and a pediment, although the door itself is modern. Above the cornice of the bay is a wooden-balustraded parapet and a large dormer window, flanked by brickwork and a pediment, with one ordinary dormer on either side.
The east front has three bays, each with three windows; one bay is fronted with red brick while the others are re-fronted with roughcast. The northern wing has a first floor that is largely modern, but the ground floor predates the main part of the house. A billiard room was added at the southwest corner of the house in the late 19th century, featuring only a ground floor and connected to the main house by a corridor with a balustraded roof.
Local climate
The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Related listed building consents — 11 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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