26, Church Square is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
26, Church Square
- WRENN ID
- empty-steeple-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26, Church Square, Rye, TN31 7HE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 921 202
- Coordinates
- 50.9497, 0.73441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a timber-framed house located on Church Square, likely dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is a three-storey building with one window. The first floor slightly overhangs the projecting ends of the floor joists. Some of the posts in the lower storeys are original, featuring mortices that suggest former brackets. The lintel above the ground-floor window is carved with quatrefoils. Modern casement windows have been installed. Curved braces are visible on either side of the first-floor window. According to the Victoria County History, the house (formerly number 25) possesses open timbered ceilings and fireplaces dating from the 16th century. The property forms a group with numbers 20 to 46 (even) and number 33, and with numbers 27 to 30 on Watchbell Street.
Local climate
26, Church Square receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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