Colwell House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Colwell House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sentry-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Colwell House, Lewes Road, Haywards Heath, RH17 7TB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 353 234
- Coordinates
- 50.99483, -0.07332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colwell House is a house built around 1840 in the Neo-Classical style. The main part of the building is two storeys high and is finished in stucco, topped with a hipped slate roof that features a bracket eaves cornice. The façade includes three 8-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves with feet below, while the ground floor windows are tripartite and topped with pediments. A central porch is supported by fluted Doric columns and accessed via five stone steps. There is a two-storey extension to the northwest, which has a lower elevation and consists of two bays. The southeast garden elevation features a tented canopy. Inside, the house contains period fireplaces and a staircase with stick balusters.
Local climate
Colwell 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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