Jacob's Ladder is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1985. Steps. 3 related planning applications.
Jacob's Ladder
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cobalt-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Steps
- Address
- Jacob's Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate, CT11 9LG
- OS grid reference
- TR 381 645
- Coordinates
- 51.32978, 1.41656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jacob's Ladder is a flight of steps built in 1826 by John Shaw, located at Ramsgate Royal Harbour. The structure is made of ashlar and features dog-leg stairs with three flights, each flanked by rounded towers also made of ashlar. Each flight includes a wide central pilaster and has landings in the center. An iron balustrade runs along the steps, and both the flights and towers are topped with ashlar coping. This stairway replaces an earlier wooden flight from around 1750, which was situated 100 yards to the east.
Local climate
Jacob's Ladder 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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