Hopkin's Crank is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
Hopkin's Crank
- WRENN ID
- heavy-column-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hopkin's Crank, Ditchling Common, BN6 8TP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 332 178
- Coordinates
- 50.94433, -0.10457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hopkin's Crank is an early 19th-century building, originally a two-window, two-storey-and-attic structure with two dormers. It was originally faced with grey headers, now painted, with red brick dressings and quoins. The building has a tiled roof and retains its original glazing bars. A single-storeyed addition at the rear, originally a workshop, was built onto the main structure.
The sculptor and letter-designer Eric Gill lived at Hopkin’s Crank from 1917 to 1924. The ground-floor addition behind the main building served as his workshop. To the southwest of the property is a single-storeyed block, also built by Gill, which now comprises the separate dwellings of "Little Crank" and "Crank's Barn". During his residency, Gill founded the Christian Workers' Guild, which continues to operate and has workshops on Furner's Lane, Burgess Hill. A chapel, built by Gill in 1921 and containing a carved rood, is attached to this block.
Local climate
Hopkin's Crank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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