Horse Gin Base at Lower Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Historical structure.

Horse Gin Base at Lower Farm

WRENN ID
empty-turret-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
Historical structure
Address
Horse Gin Base at Lower Farm, Little Horsted
OS grid reference
TQ 465 185
Coordinates
50.94802, 0.08481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Horse Gin Base at Lower Farm is a structure from the 18th century. It features a circular brick floor that is approximately 20 feet in diameter, with a central square depression designed for a post to which a horse would have been tethered. The area where the horse walked is made of a different color of brickwork. This base is notable for its rarity in Sussex and serves as an interesting reminder of an outdated method of power generation.

Local climate

Horse Gin Base at Lower Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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, 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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