The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- high-fireplace-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Retreat, High Street, Icklesham, TN36 4EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 906 174
- Coordinates
- 50.92463, 0.71137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of High Street in Winchelsea. It consists of two parallel ranges and stands two storeys tall with an attic, featuring three windows and one dormer. The front range dates back to the 15th century and is a timber-framed structure now faced with stone rubble on the ground floor, complemented by red brick window dressings and quoins. Above, the building is tile-hung with alternating courses of square and curved tiles, topped with a wooden parapet and a hipped tiled roof. The windows are casement style with small square leaded panes.
The entrance features an 18th-century doorway with a flat hood supported by brackets, and the door itself consists of six moulded and fielded panels, with the top two panels cut away and glazed. The west wall is constructed of red brick with alternating grey headers and includes a medieval round-headed stone doorway. Inside, there is a king-post roof, and beneath the house lies a vaulted cellar dating from around 1300. The back range is of a later date and has modern additions at the rear.
Local climate
The Retreat 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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