Great Maxfield is a Grade II* listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A C15 House.
Great Maxfield
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-footing-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Great Maxfield, Rock Lane, Guestling
- OS grid reference
- TQ 833 152
- Coordinates
- 50.90734, 0.60714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Maxfield is an L-shaped timber-framed house, with the north-south wing dating from the 15th century. This wing features close studding and a large sandstone ashlar chimney breast from the late 14th century on the west wall, topped with two octagonal shafts. The first floor overhangs at the north end, supported by a moulded bressummer and brackets, and there is a similarly overhanging gable above, which has fretted bargeboards and an attic window. On the first floor, there is an oriel window with a cove above and below it. The roof is slate. The east wing is a late 16th-century addition, characterized by squares of plaster infilling and a tiled roof. The entire building has casement windows with small square leaded panes. It is two storeys high and has four windows. At the time of the resurvey, the building was empty and disused.
Local climate
Great Maxfield sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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