The Cupola is a Grade II* listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Villa. 3 related planning applications.
The Cupola
- WRENN ID
- winding-clay-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Cupola, Belmont Road, TN35 5NR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 830 102
- Coordinates
- 50.86245, 0.59946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cupola is a detached villa built around 1835 by the architect Joseph Kay for himself. It is designed in a romantic Italianate style and features painted stucco. The building has two storeys, except for the south-west corner where a partly attached octagonal structure rises above the slate roof to create a belvedere, which is accented by slim angle pilasters. The ground floor of this bay includes a trellis verandah and a canopy over the first-floor windows. The left-hand return has two bays with a canopy over the ground floor window, while the right-hand return is one bay wide. The elevations are adorned with bands and pilasters, and all original casements have glazing bars. The chimneys are grouped around a square tower.
Local climate
The Cupola 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 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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