Knowle House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House.

Knowle House

WRENN ID
tall-entrance-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1951
Type
House
Address
Knowle House, 32, Mermaid Street, Rye
OS grid reference
TQ 919 202
Coordinates
50.94998, 0.73171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knowle House, located at 32 Mermaid Street, is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall and features three windows. The exterior is made of painted brick with a tiled roof. On the ground floor, there are projecting square bay windows on either side of the door, each topped with a cornice. The glazing bars are intact. The west wall is constructed of painted stone rubble at the ground level, with weatherboarding above, culminating in a gable. Knowle House is part of a group of listed buildings along Mermaid Street.

Local climate

Knowle House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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