Holst House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1974. A C19 House.
Holst House
- WRENN ID
- outer-cobalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holst House, Dudley Road, TN1 1LE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 584 395
- Coordinates
- 51.13365, 0.26299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holst House is a mid-19th century building located on Dudley Road. It is two storeys high with a basement and constructed of stock brick, featuring bands of red brick. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, and it has a cornice with brackets at the eaves. The first floor has three round-headed sash windows with keystones, while the ground floor has cambered sash windows. The entrance is framed by a doorcase that includes a cornice with decorative paterae, large stylized console brackets, and pilasters. There is a balustrade above the cornice, and area railings are present.
Local climate
Holst House 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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