The Wilderness is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House.
The Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- quartered-lead-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wilderness, Rye Road, Northiam
- OS grid reference
- TQ 830 242
- Coordinates
- 50.98813, 0.60701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wilderness is a 17th-century building located on Rye Road in Northiam. It has two storeys and features four windows. The ground floor is roughcast, while the upper floor is tile-hung and painted. The roof is half-hipped and mansarded, covered with tiles. A notable architectural feature is the central two-storey projection with curved sides. The windows are casement style with small square panes.
Local climate
The Wilderness 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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