Russell House and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. House. 2 related planning applications.

Russell House and Forecourt Wall

WRENN ID
final-plinth-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1963
Type
House
Address
Russell House and Forecourt Wall, the Street, Woodnesborough, CT13 0NQ
OS grid reference
TR 310 570
Coordinates
51.26564, 1.3104
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Russell House is an early 19th-century house with a forecourt wall. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick to the side elevations, topped with a slate roof. The house is three storeys high with a basement, and features modillion eaves and a parapet with stacks positioned to the left and right. The windows are arranged regularly, with 3 glazing bar sashes on the second and first floors, and 2 on the ground and basement floors. All windows have gauged red brick heads. The central entrance features a panelled door with a traceried semi-circular fanlight within a double rebated surround, itself with a keyed and gauged head and a ramped iron rail leading to the steps. A later, 19th-century red brick and tile-hung range extends to the rear.

Attached to the house on the left, and returning along the road front, is a forecourt wall approximately 6 feet high. The wall sweeps down to a low base intended for wooden railings and has a central wrought iron gate between piers topped with ball finials. The gate consists of a single leaf with a scrolled midrail and a central enriched panel. The wall runs for approximately 20 yards along the road, with corner piers at each end.

Local climate

Russell House and Forecourt Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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