20, Church Square is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1968. Inn.
20, Church Square
- WRENN ID
- blind-dormer-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1968
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- 20, Church Square, Rye, TN31 7HE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 921 202
- Coordinates
- 50.94977, 0.73459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20, Church Square, was formerly known as the Jolly Sailors' Inn. It features an early 19th-century front that conceals an older structure at the back, which dates from the 15th century. The building is three storeys high and has one window. The front is stuccoed, while the sides are made of brick. The doorway is adorned with thin pilasters and a flat hood. This property, along with Nos 20 to 46 (even) and No 33, forms a group with Nos 27 to 30 on Watchbell Street.
Local climate
20, Church Square 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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