The Pilgrims Rest Restaurant is a Grade II* listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Restaurant.
The Pilgrims Rest Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- swift-vestry-sage
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Pilgrims Rest Restaurant, 1, High Street, Battle
- OS grid reference
- TQ 748 157
- Coordinates
- 50.91513, 0.4854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pilgrims Rest Restaurant is a 15th-century timber-framed building located outside the gates of Battle Abbey. It features a Wealden type design, consisting of a recessed center with wings that have their first floor overhanging at the ends of the floor joists. The front of the building is close studded, while the north wing is entirely plastered on the ground floor and has squares of plaster infilling above, with some timbering visible. The south wing includes curved braces on the first floor. The center of the building has coved eaves, with the upper ends of the studs curved to form this feature, and a curved brace on the south side of the recess. The first floor has casement windows and one oriel window with six lights and a transom. There is a pointed doorway with an original iron-studded door, and the hall features a well-crafted moulded crown post roof.
Local climate
The Pilgrims Rest Restaurant 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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