4, West Ascent is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. House.
4, West Ascent
- WRENN ID
- shifting-bronze-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 088
- Coordinates
- 50.8513, 0.55354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
4 West Ascent is a building dating from around 1830, designed by James Burton. It is half of a pair that originally formed a terrace, with the other half being No 3, which has lost its top storey and has altered windows. The building is finished in stucco and features a parapet and cornice, with a slate roof. It has three storeys and a basement, with a one plus one window arrangement, where the right-hand window is recessed and was originally part of a central recess. The windows are sash style without glazing bars and are set in moulded architraves. The ground floor features a cornice, while the second floor lacks an architrave but has a wide cill band. There is an iron balconette on the ground floor window, and small windows on the right side of the first floor are adorned with a cornice on consoles. The ground floor has a projecting pilastered doorway with an entablature and cornice, accessed by steps. This building is part of James Burton's layout of St Leonards.
Local climate
4, West Ascent receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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