Temple Grove Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1973. School. 8 related planning applications.
Temple Grove Preparatory School
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-obsidian-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- Temple Grove Preparatory School, Crowborough Road, Buxted, TN22 4BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 484 271
- Coordinates
- 51.02458, 0.11478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Temple Grove Preparatory School, originally called Heron’s Ghyll, is a house dating back to around 1850. It was constructed in a Tudor Gothic style. The original building is stone, with a tiled roof and gabled dormers. The windows are casement windows with stone mullions and transoms. A two-storey porch forms part of the design. The poet Coventry Patmore occupied the house and made additions between 1866 and 1867, designed by J F Bentley and executed in matching style and materials. On the garden front, there are two gabled, two-storeyed bays with mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor and mullioned windows on the first floor, with a shield positioned between the bays on the first floor and a gabled dormer above. To the right of this block is a slightly larger block with a central gable. The interior features a staircase in a Jacobean style.
Local climate
Temple Grove Preparatory School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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