Benskins is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A Early Modern House. 1 related planning application.
Benskins
- WRENN ID
- kindled-loft-reed
- 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
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Benskins, Cottage Lane, Westfield, TN35 4RT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 812 165
- Coordinates
- 50.91953, 0.57757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benskins is an early 17th-century building that stands two storeys tall with an attic. It features four windows, with the ground floor constructed of red brick and the upper floor tile-hung. The roof is half-hipped and tiled. The building has casement windows and includes a 19th-century brick porch with a room above it.
Local climate
Benskins receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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