Rocks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Farmhouse.

Rocks Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scarred-pilaster-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rocks Farmhouse, Lakehurst Lane, Penhurst
OS grid reference
TQ 689 173
Coordinates
50.93045, 0.40241
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rocks Farmhouse is a former pair of cottages, dating from the 17th century or earlier. The building has a timber frame and has been refaced on the east side with weather-boarding on the ground floor and tile-hanging above. The west side features painted brick on the ground floor and weather-boarding above. It has a hipped tiled roof with a pentice on the south side. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has four casement windows.

Local climate

Rocks Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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