Ballsocks is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ballsocks
- WRENN ID
- fossil-gallery-saffron
- 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
- Ballsocks, Horam, TN21 9ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 594 175
- Coordinates
- 50.93556, 0.26724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ballsocks is a 15th-century timber-framed house that has been refronted with red brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above. It features a hipped tiled roof and a massive brick chimney breast on the southeast wall. The house has two storeys and one modern bay on the ground floor, with three windows overall. Inside, there is a good interior that includes early 17th-century panelling and embattled beams, along with a crown-post roof.
Local climate
Ballsocks receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1996
- 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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