West Wedge, West House, West Lawn, Spanish House and the Wedge is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Residential building. 2 related planning applications.
West Wedge, West House, West Lawn, Spanish House and the Wedge
- WRENN ID
- outer-sentry-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1975
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- West Wedge, West House, West Lawn, Spanish House and the Wedge, Sandgate Esplanade, CT20 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TR 197 350
- Coordinates
- 51.07257, 1.13597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The complex consists of West Wedge, West House, West Lawn, Spanish House, and The Wedge, likely dating to the 18th century but given a 20th-century Spanish style. The building is divided into five sections. The central section is four storeys high and stuccoed, featuring a bracketed cornice and three sash windows with intact glazing bars. A colonnade of six Tuscan columns runs along the first floor. The main entrance is on the first floor, accessible by a flight of stone steps. This entrance is flanked by three-storey stuccoed sections, each with three sash windows featuring glazing bars and shaped gables covered with pantiled roofs. Further flanking wings are also three storeys high, with a parapet, four sash windows with intact glazing bars, and projecting iron balconies. Round-headed windows are located on the ground floor. The group is historically linked to numbers 30 to 34 Sandgate Esplanade.
Local climate
West Wedge, West House, West Lawn, Spanish House and the Wedge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 9 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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