The Woolpack Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1975. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Woolpack Public House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-landing-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Woolpack Public House, Westend Road, Burgess Hill, RH15 8TS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 197
- Coordinates
- 50.96239, -0.1493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack Public House, originally a farmhouse, dates back to 1621 and has been extended in the 18th century with a later 18th-century parallel wing and large 20th-century extensions that are not of special interest. The front range is cement rendered, while the side and rear are constructed of red brick. It features a hipped tiled roof with an off-center brick stack, an end chimneystack, and another brick stack on the rear wing. The building is two storeys high with three windows, which are 20th-century casements. There is a gabled porch with a 20th-century half-glazed door and an additional 20th-century double door to the left. The right side of the building has triangular buttresses, and the rear range includes one 20th-century casement window, with a cambered design on the ground floor; the rest of this front is now concealed by the 20th-century extensions. A low brick forecourt wall is attached to the front.
Inside, the right-hand front room features a chamfered spine beam with lambs tongue stops and similar floor joists, along with an open fireplace that has a wooden bressumer showing rush light marks and a mark where a crane was attached. The front wall retains a shutter groove from an original window. On the opposite side of the open fireplace, the frame appears to be 18th-century, and the rear range contains an 18th-century parlour fireplace. This building was formerly known as Westend Farmhouse and was conveyed under the name Floods Hatch in 1621.
Local climate
The Woolpack Public 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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