The Priest House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Priest House
- WRENN ID
- old-lime-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priest House, 1, Mermaid Street, Rye, TN31 7ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 202
- Coordinates
- 50.95004, 0.73267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest House, built by Thomas Lamb in 1789, is located on the south side of Mermaid Street. The east side features the date 1789 and the initials "T.L. 70". This three-storey building is constructed of red brick and has a plain front with a parapet. The doorway is accessed by four steps and is framed with a cornice above, featuring a rectangular fanlight and a six-panel moulded door. The southwest corner of the house at the back has been rebuilt following bomb damage. The Priest House is part of a group of listed buildings on Mermaid Street and forms a group with Nos 1, 2, The Tower House, Norman House, Lamb House, and Nos 13 to 17 (consecutive) West Street.
Local climate
The Priest House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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