The Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. Hotel. 8 related planning applications.
The Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hollow-mortar-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel, 59, TN4 8BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 581 396
- Coordinates
- 51.13464, 0.2587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel is a building dating from 1834, located on the northwest side of Mount Ephraim. It features a central section that is four storeys high with three windows, flanked by slightly recessed wings that are three storeys tall with one window each. There is a stringcourse above the first floor, and a cornice and parapet above the wings, which extends across the central portion as well. The second floor of the wings has round-headed windows, although the glazing bars are missing. Above the central portion, the cornice and parapet support two shields topped with a crown, flanked by figures of a lion and a unicorn. The building has been modified by the addition of two large bays on the ground floor and a continuous domed glass verandah built above them on the first floor. The hotel is part of a group with Nos 58 to 61 and the pavement.
Local climate
The Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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