The Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
The Customs House
- WRENN ID
- other-plaster-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Customs House, 7 and 7a, High Street, Rye, TN31 7LE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 921 204
- Coordinates
- 50.95155, 0.73459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Customs House, now offices and a shop, dates from the 18th century. It is a two-storey, three-window building constructed of red brick, with some patching. It features an eaves cornice and a tiled roof. The front doorway is framed with a small, flat hood over a six-panelled, moulded door. A double shop window has been inserted to the west of the door. The side of the house, facing Conduit Hill, has two half-hipped gables and is tiled above the ground floor. A large block has been added to the rear, creating an L-shape with the main section.
Local climate
The Customs House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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