Highlands is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. House.
Highlands
- WRENN ID
- muted-lintel-quill
- 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
- Highlands, Wadhurst Road, Ticehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 680 304
- Coordinates
- 51.04899, 0.39578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highlands is a Grade II listed house built by Dr. Newington in the early 19th century as a private mental home. It is now part of Ticehurst House Private Clinic, which is adjacent to it.
The building is a double L-shaped structure with two storeys. It features four windows on the south side and six windows on the east side, all of which are stuccoed. There is a stringcourse, an eaves bracket cornice, and a slate roof. The windows are adorned with fancy Gothic glazing, complete with intact glazing bars, and some are pointed. The south front and the south end of the east front have a glass veranda on the ground floor. The west front includes a flattened curved bay with one window bay on the first floor, supported by two fluted Ionic columns that create a porch.
Originally, the house had several ornamental garden buildings, including a Chinese gallery, a Gothic conservatory, and aviaries, which were illustrated in Horsfield's History of Sussex, but these have since been demolished.
Local climate
Highlands receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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