South West Wing at Former Legat's School of Dancing is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1991. School accommodation.
South West Wing at Former Legat's School of Dancing
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-granite-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1991
- Type
- School accommodation
- Address
- South West Wing at Former Legat's School of Dancing, Catt's Hill, Rotherfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 576 307
- Coordinates
- 51.05484, 0.24853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South West Wing at the former Legat's School of Dancing is a building constructed in 1903 by J S Hansom, originally designed to provide improved accommodation for the nuns who managed a girls' orphanage. This structure includes an entrance hall, a community room, a store room, eight cells, and a bathroom on the first floor. It is built from red brick with black brick dressings and features a slate roof. The left side has arrow-slit windows and two cambered casements on the lower floors. The right section has buttresses and is two storeys high with attics, featuring five gabled dormers and six cambered sash windows with horns. The right end of the building has two external chimneystacks. The rear elevation mirrors the front but includes a three-light canted bay window on the ground floor left and six cinquefoil-headed windows on the ground floor. The building is connected to the chapel and school by a covered passageway. A 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the left is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
South West Wing at Former Legat's School of Dancing receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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