20, 20a and 21, Watchbell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 7 related planning applications.
20, 20a and 21, Watchbell Street
- WRENN ID
- western-oriel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, 20a and 21, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 201
- Coordinates
- 50.94916, 0.73269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are early 17th-century houses situated on Watchbell Street, with the first floor of the building between numbers 20A and 21 projecting on curved brackets. The front was refaced with tiles in the 18th century. The buildings are two stories high with an attic. Number 20 and 21 each have two windows, while number 20A has one. The facades are stuccoed, with grooved detailing on the ground floor to imitate stonework. A parapet runs along the top, and the roof is tiled, featuring one dormer window in each house. The windows are sash windows with intact glazing bars. Each house has a large bay window on the ground floor. The doorways incorporate narrow, rectangular fanlights divided by vertical lines. The doorway at number 20 also features fluted pilasters and a small, flat hood above the door, echoing the overhang of the first floor. Numbers 18 to 21 together form a distinct group.
Local climate
20, 20a and 21, Watchbell Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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