Emerson College is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Emerson College
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spindle-primrose
- 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
- Emerson College, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5JX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 437 354
- Coordinates
- 51.10004, 0.05165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Emerson College is a large house built around 1830, featuring two storeys and an attic with seven windows and two gabled dormers. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the upper floor is adorned with fishscale tiles that have also been painted. The building has a modillion eaves cornice and a central pediment. A Venetian window is located in the centre of the first floor. The roof is slate, and the glazing bars are missing. There is a trellised iron verandah on the ground floor.
Local climate
Emerson College receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 9 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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