Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. Residential. 1 related planning application.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- north-eave-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Rock House, Exmouth Place, TN34 3JA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 095
- Coordinates
- 50.85668, 0.58932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a circa 1820 red brick house with blue brick headers, featuring a stuccoed east front and a slate hipped roof. The two-storey building includes a basement. It has sash windows with glazing bars and louvred shutters, with bay windows extending from the east side on both the ground and first floors. A brick string course runs along the facade. The central entrance has a moulded panelled door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. Above the door is an inscription commemorating Dr Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman doctor, who lived and worked at the house for thirty years.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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