The Five Houses is a Grade II* listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
The Five Houses
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-paling-auburn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- The Five Houses, 4 and 5, School Hill, Winchelsea, Icklesham, TN36 4HL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 904 175
- Coordinates
- 50.92621, 0.70887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Houses comprise part of an L-shaped block of five dwellings built on a series of high cellars, with properties numbered 1-3 facing North Street and numbers 4 and 5 located on School Hill in the village of Icklesham, near Winchelsea. The houses date to the 17th century. The two storeys and attic of numbers 4 and 5 School Hill have five windows and three hipped dormers facing School Hill, and four windows and three hipped dormers facing North Street. The ground floor is constructed of stone rubble, with red brick window dressings and quoins above, and is hung with curved tiles. The roof is tiled. The windows are casement type. Doorways are positioned above street level, each with a flat hood supported on brackets, and feature six-panelled doors. Vaulted cellars, believed to date back to around 1300, lie beneath the houses. Details for numbers 1-3 are listed separately in relation to North Street.
Local climate
The Five Houses 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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