Monks House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
Monks House
- WRENN ID
- open-joist-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Monks House, Rodmell, Lewes, BN7 3HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 420 062
- Coordinates
- 50.83872, 0.01655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks House is an 18th-century building located in Rodmell. It is two storeys high and features four windows. The exterior is faced with weatherboarding set on a stuccoed base, and it has a slate roof with intact glazing bars. There is a later porch and an addition at the north end of the building. Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived here for several years until their deaths.
Local climate
Monks House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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