Number 55 (Darlington House) and Numbers 57 and 59 and Garden Wall in Front of Nos 55, 57 and 59 is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 55 (Darlington House) and Numbers 57 and 59 and Garden Wall in Front of Nos 55, 57 and 59
- WRENN ID
- first-stair-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 55 (Darlington House) and Numbers 57 and 59 and Garden Wall in Front of Nos 55, 57 and 59, Croft Road, TN34 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 824 097
- Coordinates
- 50.85839, 0.59035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 55, known as Darlington House, along with Numbers 57 and 59, features a garden wall in front of all three properties. This terrace, originally called Gloucester Place, was built in 1817 and is constructed of stucco. It has a parapet and a slate mansard roof with half-hipped ends. The buildings rise four storeys, including an attic and basement.
Each house has an arched porch with open pediments supported by Tuscan columns, a traceried fanlight, and panelled doors. They also feature sash windows with glazing bars and segmental bowed bay windows made of sashes with glazing bars on each floor. Number 55 has a three-storeyed canted bay window with sashes that do not have glazing bars, replacing the original bowed window. The properties include square-roofed dormers with sash windows that have glazing bars.
There is a flight of steps leading to each doorway, accompanied by iron railings with turned newels. The terrace is elevated above the road, with gardens set on a red brick terrace wall topped with iron railings featuring arrow-head shafts.
Local climate
Number 55 (Darlington House) and Numbers 57 and 59 and Garden Wall in Front of Nos 55, 57 and 59 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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