St Benet's is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. A C19 House.

St Benet's

WRENN ID
winter-cobble-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1988
Type
House
Address
St Benet's, 1 and 2, Spencer Square, Ramsgate
OS grid reference
TR 379 644
Coordinates
51.3295, 1.4142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St. Benet's is a house located in Ramsgate, built in the late 19th century. The building is rendered and topped with a slate roof. It features three storeys and an attic, along with a six-storey tower. The base of the house is horizontally rusticated, and it has a balustrated parapet adorned with urn finials. The roof is hipped to the right and includes three moulded segmental dormers with ball finials.

The rear tower has a gable on the left side, with segmentally headed sash windows, and a stack and stair turret grouped to the right. On the second floor, there are two full-height canted bays with sash windows, while the first floor has French windows and sash windows, along with a tented verandah that wraps around the bays. This verandah features moulded valancing, slender piers, and cast iron rails. The ground floor includes sash and French windows, as well as double half-glazed doors with a semi-circular fanlight, set within a surround of recessed marble columns. The ground floor is also equipped with cast iron rails. Inside, there is a central swept stair with a balustrade.

Local climate

St Benet's 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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