Farm Building to East of Horsegrove is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2000. Farm building.
Farm Building to East of Horsegrove
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hammer-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2000
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Farm Building to East of Horsegrove, Mayfield Road, Rotherfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 556 294
- Coordinates
- 51.0432, 0.21962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The farm building to the east of Horsegrove is a model farm constructed around 1899 for Sydney Snelgrove, associated with Marshall and Snelgrove's department store in London. It is designed in the Vernacular Revival style and features red brick in English bond, some timber framing, and sandstone at the center of the south front. The building has tile-hanging on the center of the north front and a hipped tiled roof with wooden louvres and a spire.
This rectangular structure is one storey with attics and serves multiple functions, including cowsheds on the west, a feed room in the center, a dairy at the center south, cartsheds to the northeast, and stables and a piggery to the southeast. The south front showcases a central overhanging gable supported by wooden brackets, which is timber-framed with plastered infill on a sandstone plinth. It features two 15-pane top pivoting casements and a central Dutch door with a rectangular glazed fanlight. The roof includes a central ornamental ventilation louvre topped with a spire and a metal weathervane. Each side of the roof has two hipped dormers and large ventilation louvres.
On the west side, there are three cambered triple mullioned and transomed wooden casements and a cambered doorcase. The east side has two cambered triple mullioned and transomed wooden casements, a stable door, and a larger opening. The north front features a central hipped roofed tiled hayloft with window and door openings to the west and a four-bay open cartshed with timber supports on brick piers to the east. The east front includes a cartshed opening to the north and one narrow and one wide wooden doorcase with a cambered head to the south.
Inside, the cowsheds have angled queen strut roofs supported by iron tie rods, purlins, and rafters with ridgepieces. The cartshed has a similar roof structure. The feed room has a steep wooden staircase leading to the loft, and the dairy is equipped with slate shelves and glazed cream tiles. Notably, there was no farmhouse; this model farm was built behind the house of Sydney Snelgrove's bailiff.
Local climate
Farm Building to East of Horsegrove 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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