18, Watchbell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1968. House.

18, Watchbell Street

WRENN ID
idle-attic-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1968
Type
House
Address
18, Watchbell Street, Rye
OS grid reference
TQ 920 201
Coordinates
50.94909, 0.73248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 18 on Watchbell Street is an 18th-century building featuring two storeys and an attic. The structure has two windows and is constructed of red brick, which has been entirely renewed. It has a parapet and a tiled roof, along with a large modern dormer. The windows have cambered head linings and retain their glazing bars. The doorway is framed and topped with a flat hood supported on brackets. A modern porch has been added over the doorway, featuring wooden sides and a tiled roof. Additionally, there is a large modern extension to the west. Numbers 18 to 21 on Watchbell Street form a group.

Local climate

18, 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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