David Salomons' House, water tower and wall attached to east is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1973. A C19 House, water tower.

David Salomons' House, water tower and wall attached to east

WRENN ID
crumbling-jade-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1973
Type
House, water tower
OS grid reference
TQ 568 416
Coordinates
51.15259, 0.24185
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

David Salomons' House, built in the late 19th century, is made of stock brick and features a band of red brick that marks each storey. It is situated on an outcrop of Tunbridge Wells rock, with caves located beneath it. The building includes a round tower that rises four storeys, along with a smaller staircase turret. It has a crenellated parapet, a clock face, and arrow slit windows. To the east, there is a nearly 6-foot-high wall that also has a crenellated parapet, imitation towers, arrow-slit openings, and machicolations. This wall partly encloses a walled garden to the north.

Local climate

David Salomons' House, water tower and wall attached to east receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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