Horsepen is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House.
Horsepen
- WRENN ID
- crooked-buttress-falcon
- 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
- Horsepen, Main Street, Beckley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 847 236
- Coordinates
- 50.98281, 0.62998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horsepen is an L-shaped timber-framed house dating from the 17th century or earlier, located on the south side of Main Street in Beckley. The house features plaster infilling, with the west wing's first floor oversailing on a moulded bressummer supported by brackets, and a close-studded gable above. The bressummer and bargeboards are painted in red, yellow, and green. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows with diamond-shaped leaded panes. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a total of two windows.
Local climate
Horsepen 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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