4 and 5, Lion Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1968. Premises, cottage.

4 and 5, Lion Street

WRENN ID
graven-flue-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1968
Type
Premises, cottage
Address
4 and 5, Lion Street, Rye
OS grid reference
TQ 921 203
Coordinates
50.9506, 0.73388
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 4 and 5 Lion Street is a building now used as a single premises, which includes a formerly separate cottage on School Lane. The front of the building dates from the 18th century, while the earlier structure retains timber framing in the upper storey and a 15th-century roof. The building is two storeys high and has one window on each floor. It features painted brick with a parapet, and the south wall is made of brick with a gable that is hung with tiles. The first floor has intact glazing bars. There are two small 19th-century shop fronts with a continuous cornice above them. All the listed buildings on the west side of Lion Street form a group.

Local climate

4 and 5, Lion Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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