Lunsford is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Lunsford

WRENN ID
forgotten-brass-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lunsford, Pett Road, TN35 4HH
OS grid reference
TQ 883 138
Coordinates
50.89368, 0.67639
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lunsford is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 17th century, featuring alterations from the 18th century and a kitchen and scullery extension added to the rear in the 19th century. The front range has an 18th-century appearance, with a front elevation that is rendered over brickwork on a brick plinth, and the gable ends are tile hung. The roof is half-hipped and covered with old tiles, topped by a central brick chimney stack that has a cruciform shape. The building has two storeys and attics in the gable end, as well as a part cellar.

The layout is roughly L-shaped with three windows, and it includes a lobby entrance type with basement windows, two of which are tripartite. The ground floor windows are set in original cambered architraves. The central doorcase features a flat moulded weatherhood supported by brackets, and the entrance consists of a six-panel double door, with the top two panels being glazed. The right side gable has an attic window with leaded lights, while the left wing has a half-hipped gable.

At the rear, there is an early 19th-century kitchen and wash house extension made of brick with a tiled post, which is a single storey and has two iron casement windows. Inside, the farmhouse contains a staircase with turned banisters, several old plank doors, and diamond-shaped mortises for wooden mullions that indicate the line of the original rear wall.

Local climate

Lunsford 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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