Westbere House is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. House. 37 related planning applications.
Westbere House
- WRENN ID
- upper-attic-sage
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westbere House, Westbere Lane, CT2 0HH
- OS grid reference
- TR 192 610
- Coordinates
- 51.30619, 1.14427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbere House is a large, L-shaped house dating to circa 1800. The exterior is painted brick on the ground floor, with the rest of the facade covered in wistaria and other climbing plants. It has a mansard slate roof with three dormers and a parapet, featuring an enriched frieze with swags. The windows are five-light sashes with intact glazing bars; the first-floor windows have Venetian shutters. A doorcase with engaged Ionic columns, an enriched frieze, pediments, an elliptical fanlight, and double doors of six moulded and fielded panels leads to the entrance, which is raised two steps. The east and west fronts are splayed; the west front has two bays, each containing three windows on both the ground and first floors. Inside, the house features 18th-century marble fireplaces and a staircase with two twisted balusters to each tread. The house was once owned by the writer Joseph Conrad.
Local climate
Westbere House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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 — 13 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 37 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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