27 and 28, Watchbell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1968. A C15 House. 7 related planning applications.
27 and 28, Watchbell Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-trefoil-wren
- 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
- 27 and 28, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 202
- Coordinates
- 50.94939, 0.73344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 27 and 28 Watchbell Street are a pair of houses dating to the early 19th century, though No. 27 retains moulded ceiling beams from the 15th century. The houses are three storeys high and have five windows in total. They are stuccoed and have a parapet. The original glazing bars are largely intact, except for those in the large, ground-floor canted bay window of No. 28. No. 27 has a doorway with Doric pilasters, a rectangular fanlight, and a cornice above. No. 28 has a round-headed doorway with a semi-circular fanlight. Nos. 27 to 30, along with Nos. 20 to 46 (even) and No. 33 Church Square, form a group.
Local climate
27 and 28, 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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