Harpsichord House is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. House.
Harpsichord House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-forge-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harpsichord House, Cobourg Place
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 096
- Coordinates
- 50.85763, 0.58949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harpsichord House is an early 19th-century building that has a wedge-shaped plan. The exterior features stucco with a brick ground floor, a parapet, and a cornice. The main front of the house faces east and consists of three storeys with three windows. There is a canted bay in the centre of the first and second floors, which has sashes without glazing bars, while the ground floor has casements and a central French window. The north end of the building comes to a point. The west side, which is the rear, is weatherboarded and has a room built out on the first floor over a passageway and steps; this room connects the house to the hillside rocks. Additionally, there is a round-headed doorway with a semi-circular fanlight on this side. A late 19th-century red brick wing is located on the south side, which has one window and a canted bay on the first floor. Harpsichord House and West Hill Villa together form a group.
Local climate
Harpsichord 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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