The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chapel-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Birchgrove Road, Horsted Keynes, RH17 7BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 400 300
- Coordinates
- 51.05304, -0.00301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a timber-framed building, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, and restored in 1935. It has an L-shaped footprint. The original building has plaster infilling between the timber framing. The ground floor has been rebuilt using coursed stone. The roof is tiled. The windows are casement type. A two-storey gabled projection is situated centrally in the front elevation, featuring three windows. A modern, single-storey wing, clad in weatherboarding, extends to the west.
Local climate
The Old House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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