21 Robertson Street is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1996. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
21 Robertson Street
- WRENN ID
- waiting-floor-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1996
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 21 Robertson Street, TN34 1HL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 815 093
- Coordinates
- 50.85519, 0.57793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
21 Robertson Street is a commercial building constructed between 1850 and 1859 as part of a terrace. It was designed by CF Reeks and AJ Humbert for Patrick Robertson, MP, of Hastings. Around 1924, an Art Deco shopfront and interior were installed.
The building has a shop on the ground floor with accommodation above on three upper floors. The front elevation is stuccoed, with a timber and glazed shopfront. The rear is of brown brick, and the roof is tiled.
The shopfront is in an Art Nouveau style, featuring a moulded fascia above a curved window flanked by sinuous wooden pilasters on the left and a narrow, curved section containing shelving on the right. Both sides have marble stall risers. The recessed doorway has rococo-style floral motifs on the door and a square fanlight. The entrance porch has a mosaic floor of turquoise tiles within a chequered border. A roller shutter is positioned at the top of the shopfront.
The upper floors each have two four-pane sash windows with enriched window surrounds, with cornices over the first- and second-floor windows. A modillioned cornice runs at eaves level.
Inside the ground-floor shop, the ceiling has a sunburst design with ovolo moulding. Two curved shelves with anthemion motifs are on the right-hand wall.
Local climate
21 Robertson Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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