Upper Crab Farmhouse and Crab Apple Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Upper Crab Farmhouse and Crab Apple Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-keep-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Crab Farmhouse and Crab Apple Cottage, Wellbrook Hill, Nr Five Ashes, Mayfield, East Sussex, Mayfield and Five Ashes, TN20 6HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 567 257
- Coordinates
- 51.01004, 0.23246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Crab Farmhouse, now sub-divided, is a former farmhouse dating to the 17th century. It is two storeys high and has four windows. The ground floor is built of red brick with grey headers on a stone base, while the upper floor is tile-hung. The roof is slate-covered. The windows are casement windows, and a doorway is topped with a flat hood.
Local climate
Upper Crab Farmhouse and Crab Apple Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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