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
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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