The Rainbow Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Rainbow Inn
- WRENN ID
- low-chalk-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Rainbow Inn, Hamsey, BN8 4SS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 403 142
- Coordinates
- 50.91078, -0.00559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rainbow Inn is a 18th-century building located in Cooksbridge, Hamsey. It stands two storeys tall and features two windows. The exterior is faced with flints, complemented by red brick dressings, quoins, and a modillion cornice. The roof is tiled, and the windows are casement style. Notably, there is a cartouche and a sundial above the doorway, which displays the initials IM and the date 1749. A sundial on the front also bears the date 1749.
Local climate
The Rainbow Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 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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