Crown House is a Grade II* listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A C19 Building. 3 related planning applications.
Crown House
- WRENN ID
- standing-hearth-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Crown House, 57, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 088
- Coordinates
- 50.85093, 0.5525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crown House is a Grade II* listed detached two-storey building located at 57 Marina in St Leonards on Sea. It was designed by James Burton and completed in 1828. The building was renamed Victoria House after Princess Victoria and the Duchess of Kent stayed here between 1834 and 1835. It has recently undergone restoration.
The exterior features painted stucco. On the ground floor, there is a central recessed door flanked by three-light sash windows set in slightly recessed segmental headed panels, separated by four wide panelled piers. The first floor showcases four pairs of coupled, fluted Ionic columns that support an entablature with a wide cornice and a parapet featuring a pedimented centre. This colonnade creates a verandah, which is adorned with a delicate wrought iron railing in front of a tall central sash window, complemented by flanking canted bay windows with paired pilasters in between. Crown House is part of James Burton's design for St Leonards.
Crown House is grouped with several other notable buildings, including Nos 36 to 44 and No 40A (Eastern Colonnade), Royal Victoria Hotel, and Nos 48 to 53 (Western Colonnade), with Nos 60, 61, and 62 being of local interest only.
Local climate
Crown House 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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- 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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