The Old Borough Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. Private house. 4 related planning applications.

The Old Borough Arms

WRENN ID
lunar-vestry-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Private house
Address
The Old Borough Arms, the Strand, Rye, TN31 7DB
OS grid reference
TQ 919 202
Coordinates
50.94962, 0.73081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Borough Arms is a private house located at 1578 The Strand. It is an 18th century or earlier building constructed on the Town Wall, accessed by 15 steps from the street. The house has two storeys and an attic, with one room situated to the left of the steps within the Town Wall itself, below the ground floor level of the house. The building features three windows, with the ground floor made of painted brick and weatherboarding above. It has two half-hipped gables and a tiled roof. The windows are fitted with Venetian shutters and retain their glazing bars. There is a flat hood above the door.

Local climate

The Old Borough Arms receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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