White Friars Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Hotel.
White Friars Hotel
- WRENN ID
- secret-bonework-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- White Friars Hotel, Wartling
- OS grid reference
- TQ 663 113
- Coordinates
- 50.87813, 0.36299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Friars Hotel is a building that dates back to 1721, with its oldest part being a stone and brick crow-stepped chimney breast on the north-east wall from the 16th century. The main façade faces south-east and features two storeys and an attic, with nine windows and three dormers. The exterior is constructed of red brick with grey headers, covered in creepers, and includes a string course and eaves cornice. The hipped tiled roof is adorned with casement windows that have small square leaded panes. The entrance features a doorway with a flat hood supported by brackets, and above it is a stone sundial dated 1721, which displays the initials B. I. M. and the arms of the Benbridge family.
On the north-east front, there is a stone Venetian window on the ground floor with Ionic pilasters, alongside a doorway with fluted Ionic half-columns and a six-panel fielded door, flanked by side-lights. Above this, a tile-hung bay has been constructed on brick pillars. The north-west entrance front has six windows and consists of four short parallel ranges at right angles to the main wing, each topped with a gable and a chimney at its apex. A modern wing has been added to the south side. Inside, the hotel features bolection-moulded panelling from around 1721 and a plaster ceiling in the dining room.
Local climate
White Friars Hotel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
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