Knowles Tooth is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
Knowles Tooth
- WRENN ID
- inner-jade-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knowles Tooth, Langton Lane, Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common, BN6 9EZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 273 178
- Coordinates
- 50.946, -0.1882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowles Tooth is a Grade II listed building, with its east wing dating from the 17th century or earlier. This timber-framed structure is now covered with fishscale tiles and features a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with a pentice on the west side. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three windows and three gabled dormers. The north-west wing was constructed in the early to mid-19th century and is two storeys tall with five windows. This part of the building is finished in stucco and includes a stringcourse, a hipped slate roof, sash windows on the first floor, and French windows on the ground floor, with intact glazing bars.
Local climate
Knowles Tooth 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 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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