Wells House is a Grade II* listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House.
Wells House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steeple-laurel
- 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
- House
- Address
- Wells House, Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate, CT20 2JQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 209 353
- Coordinates
- 51.07471, 1.15255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells House is a mid-19th century building with additions from 1903, designed by architect C. F. A. Voysey for H. G. Wells. The house is two storeys high, featuring white roughcast walls and stone dressings. It has mullioned windows with leaded lights and a tiled roof. The entrance front includes a doorway with a Tudor arch and a two-storey canted bay made of stone to the left. There are mullioned windows on the first floor, and sloping buttresses at the corners. A two-storey block was added at right angles in the 1920s, which has a canted front. The ground rises to a first-floor garden porch on the right, flanked by hipped bay windows, while the left side features mullioned windows on both floors and a canted bay window with a balcony above. The end gable is tile hung, and there are tall roughcast chimneystacks.
Inside, the house contains arched doorcases and a staircase with two round-headed arches divided by a twisted column. It was at Wells House that H. G. Wells wrote several notable works, including 'Mankind in the Making', 'A Modern Utopia', and 'The War in the Air'.
Wells House is part of a group that includes Endcliffe House, St Paul's Vicarage, Vicarage Cottage, Sea Lady, and East Cliff House, located on Vicarage Road.
Local climate
Wells House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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