Vale House is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. House, school. 5 related planning applications.
Vale House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-zinc-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Vale House, West Cliff Road, Ramsgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 378 647
- Coordinates
- 51.33174, 1.41352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vale House is a house, later used as a school, dating from the 1840s. It is rendered and has a slate roof. The house is three storeys high, with an attic storey, the second floor being set back behind a moulded cornice, topped by a parapet to the attic block, which features two casement windows. Chimneys are located on the left and right sides. The second floor has three round-headed sash windows with Y-tracery. The first floor has three wooden casement windows with half-mullions and transoms, set within moulded surrounds. The ground floor has two sash windows in moulded surrounds, and a central half-glazed door with an elliptical fanlight within a pilaster surround, leading up three steps.
The right return front has five bays, with four sashes on the ground and first floors, each featuring a scrolled shell pediment. There are four round-headed sashes on the second floor, all with a central blank panel. The attic storey is moulded into a large scrolled pediment, with the word "Vale" raised on a central panel.
The building’s name, Vale House, refers to the “Vale,” and further historical information regarding the Vale can be found in reference 12/389. It was likely built by William Saxby as part of James Creed Eddell's development scheme, undertaken between 1840 and 1850.
Local climate
Vale House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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