Leasam House School is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. School. 5 related planning applications.
Leasam House School
- WRENN ID
- blind-basalt-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- School
- Address
- Leasam House School, Leasam Lane, Rye Foreign, TN31 7UE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 909 214
- Coordinates
- 50.96054, 0.71817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leasam House School is a fine mansion built by Jeremiah Curteis between 1798 and 1806. The main south front features three storeys and seven windows, constructed of red brick with painted quoins and a stringcourse above the first floor. A balustraded parapet with panels of red brick tops the building, with the three central window bays projecting slightly. These projecting bays are edged with quoins, and a modillion pediment sits above them on the second floor, incorporating a lunette window. Terracotta swags decorate the spaces between the first-floor windows. A hexastyle Ionic portico with a balustraded parapet graces the ground floor entrance, complemented by a rectangular fanlight over the doorway. Keystones are present over the ground-floor windows, and the original glazing bars remain intact.
The north, or entrance, front features a doorway with engaged columns, a curved pediment, an enriched frieze, and a semi-circular fanlight above a six-panel door. The east front has three windows, with the outer windows being tripartite, and those on the second floor forming lunette windows. A later service wing was added to the north-west of the main house.
Local climate
Leasam House School 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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- 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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