Old Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Old Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- stranded-corner-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Chestnuts, Main Street, Beckley, TN31 6RS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 845 237
- Coordinates
- 50.98335, 0.62749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Chestnuts is an early 19th-century building on the north side of Main Street, Beckley. It is a two-storey, three-window structure built of ashlar. The roof is tiled and features three half-hipped gables. The windows are casements with canted heads and dripstones. The doorway has a similar-headed arch and a fanlight above. A bay window is located on the ground floor, to the east of the main doorway.
Local climate
Old Chestnuts sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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