The Flying Engine is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Flying Engine
- WRENN ID
- western-stone-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Flying Engine, Fletching Common, TN22 3PY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 418 226
- Coordinates
- 50.98559, 0.01936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flying Engine is an 18th or early 19th century building with a probable older core. It is two storeys high and has two windows. The ground floor is stuccoed and painted brick, while the upper floor is tile-hung. The roof is half-hipped. There is a casement window and a 19th-century gabled porch. A chimney breast is visible on the south wall. This building is of group value.
Local climate
The Flying Engine receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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