The Priest House is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Priest House
- WRENN ID
- blind-timber-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priest House, Church Lane, Hellingly, BN27 4HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 580 122
- Coordinates
- 50.88831, 0.2459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest House is a timber-framed building, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, that has been refronted with tile hanging and some red brick. It has a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof with a pentice to the south-east wing. The windows are casement windows with small square panes. A doorway is topped by a flat hood supported on brackets. The building is two storeys high and has three windows. The building was formerly known as Yew Tree Cottage.
Local climate
The Priest House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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