Sowdens is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House.
Sowdens
- WRENN ID
- rough-pavement-saffron
- 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
- Sowdens, Udimore Road, Brede
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 192
- Coordinates
- 50.9428, 0.63225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sowdens is a restored L-shaped building located on Udimore Road in Brede. The east wing dates back to the 15th century and is constructed with timber framing and plaster infilling. The east front projects on brackets, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick. It features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof and casement windows. The west end of the building is a 17th-century addition, and the L-wing to the north was added in the 18th century. The building has two storeys and three windows, with a crown-post roof visible inside.
Local climate
Sowdens 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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