Cowbeech House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. Residential house. 2 related planning applications.

Cowbeech House

WRENN ID
blind-bronze-furze
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1966
Type
Residential house
Address
Cowbeech House, Herstmonceux, BN27 4JF
OS grid reference
TQ 619 145
Coordinates
50.90741, 0.30221
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cowbeech House, dated 1731, is a two-storey building with an attic and five windows. Originally constructed of red brick, it has been refaced with stucco. The house features a modillion eaves cornice and a central gable that has modillions designed as a pediment, with an attic window in the tympanum and a crest of a gryphon rampant below it. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, with a chimney stack on each side of the half-hip. The windows have slightly cambered head linings and retain their glazing bars. The doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets, has a rectangular fanlight, and features a door with six fielded panels. Above the door is a small panel displaying a shield with the date 1731. On either side of the doorway are narrow recessed panels that contain an iron two-headed eagle arising from a coronet; these originally stood on gate-posts at another house before being relocated here.

Local climate

Cowbeech House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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