No 17 and Railed Area is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1977. Terrace house. 2 related planning applications.
No 17 and Railed Area
- WRENN ID
- blind-joist-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1977
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- No 17 and Railed Area, Nelson Crescent, Ramsgate, CT11 9JF
- OS grid reference
- TR 380 645
- Coordinates
- 51.32989, 1.41582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 and its railed area is a terrace house, now converted into flats, dating from 1798 to 1801. It is constructed of white stock brick, with some rendered sections, and has a slate roof. The building is four storeys high, with a basement and attic, featuring a mansard roof with a parapet. There is one flat-roofed dormer window and chimney stacks to the left and right. The third floor has two sash windows; the second floor features three sashes, all with gauged heads. The first floor has two full-height sash windows and a central French door, accompanied by a verandah supported by simple piers and featuring wrought iron valancing and a panelled Gothic balustrade. Two sashes are present on the ground floor, with a four-panel door to the right, topped with a rectangular fanlight and flanked by attached Doric columns with a cornice, leading up a flight of six steps. A sash window with vertical glazing bars and a half-glazed outer door are located at basement level. Spearhead rails are present.
Local climate
No 17 and Railed Area 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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