Cupola House is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1959. House. 1 related planning application.
Cupola House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pillar-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cupola House, Paglesham Road, SS4 2EF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 941 923
- Coordinates
- 51.59638, 0.80199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cupola House, formerly known as Lunts, is a house located on Paglesham Road, dating from the early 19th century but incorporating features from an earlier period. The building is constructed of red brick and has a red plain tiled roof with end chimney stacks, a parapet, and parapet verges. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and has a three-window range featuring small paned vertically sliding sashes with gauged brick arches. The windows on the right and left are tripartite, and there are smaller arches over the basement windows.
Access to the central doorway is via semi-circular steps. The doorway is topped by a moulded semi-circular canopy supported by pilasters and circular columns with moulded capitals and bases. The door itself is a two-panel, four-light design with tracery in the fanlight, a moulded surround, and a segmental head. Historical records indicate that Thomas Midwinter lived at "Lunts" in 1697. A Georgian facade with a cupola, which has since been demolished, was added to the house in 1803 by Thomas Browning, whose initials can be found by the front door.
Local climate
Cupola House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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