Webster House and Railings to North is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Webster House and Railings to North

WRENN ID
still-ashlar-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
House
Address
Webster House and Railings to North, High Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 3DT
OS grid reference
TQ 773 359
Coordinates
51.09541, 0.53132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Webster House is an early 18th-century building that underwent alterations and additions in 1875-76 by the architect Richard Norman Shaw for Thomas Webster, a Royal Academician. It is situated in front of a 17th-century building and features red brick with orange dressings. The house has a broken moulded brick cornice over the ground floor and continuous bands over the first and second floors, topped by a brick-capped parapet that conceals the roof. A tall brick stack is located at the rear.

The building is three storeys high with a regular five-bay front. The first and second floors have sash windows without glazing bars, set in segment head surrounds. On the ground floor, there are two canted 19th-century bays flanking a panelled door. This door is surrounded by fluted Doric pilasters that support a full Doric entablature, which features triglyphs and metopes containing paterae. Surrounding the front enclosure are spearhead railings, which are four feet higher on a red brick plinth, with a central gateway.

Local climate

Webster House and Railings to North receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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