Court Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House.

Court Gardens

WRENN ID
pitched-screen-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Court Gardens, Common Lane, Ditchling, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 324 163
Coordinates
50.93102, -0.11621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court Gardens is an 18th-century L-shaped house located on the site of Ditchling Garden Manor House, which was owned by Anne of Cleves. The building has two storeys and an attic in the gable ends, featuring four windows. It is finished in stucco and has a half-hipped tiled roof. The glazing bars are intact, and there is a doorway with a flat hood supported by brackets.

Local climate

Court Gardens receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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