Lucas's is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. A C16 House. 3 related planning applications.

Lucas's

WRENN ID
keen-courtyard-heath
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Mid Sussex
Constituency
Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Lucas's, Lucastes Avenue, Haywards Heath, RH16 1JH
OS grid reference
TQ 326 244
Coordinates
51.00424, -0.11138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lucas's is a late 16th-century timber-framed house that was refronted in the early 19th century and restored in the 20th century. The ground floor is red brick with grey headers on a sandstone plinth, while the first floor is tile-hung. It has a steeply pitched roof, hipped to the right and half-hipped with a gablet to the left. The house has two storeys and four windows, with modern casements featuring three, four or five lights. A central doorcase features flat weatherboarding on brackets. There is a multiple central brick chimney stack and a tall external stack to the east, built on a sandstone base.

The dining room contains late 16th-century panelling of fine quality, including an overmantel with five round-headed arches and pilasters. The ceiling retains a spine beam and joists with lambs tongue stops. A late 16th-century dogleg staircase, featuring turned balusters and square newels, is likely to have been resited. The house appeared on an estate map of 1638 as Edwards House.

Local climate

Lucas's 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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