The Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Warehouse, commercial building, house. 5 related planning applications.
The Watch House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-forge-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Warehouse, commercial building, house
- Address
- The Watch House, Icklesham, TN31 7TU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 942 190
- Coordinates
- 50.93836, 0.763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House is probably an early 19th-century warehouse or commercial building that was later converted into a house. It is two storeys high and originally had two windows. The exterior is faced with tarred weather boarding, topped by a hipped slate roof. It has sash windows with glazing bars. A later three-storey square turret has been added into the south-west corner, serving as a lookout.
Local climate
The Watch House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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