Windlesham Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Windlesham Manor
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-slate-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Windlesham Manor, Hurtis Hill, Crowborough, TN6 3AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 510 294
- Coordinates
- 51.04479, 0.15395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windlesham Manor is an L-shaped house built around 1900, notable for being the home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1907 to 1930. It is historically significant as the place where he wrote later Sherlock Holmes stories and "The Lost World." The house has two storeys, featuring five windows and five gables on each wing. The ground floor is faced with roughcast, while the upper floor is covered with wooden shingles. It has a tiled roof and casement windows.
Local climate
Windlesham Manor 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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