The Wishing Well is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
The Wishing Well
- WRENN ID
- shifting-balcony-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Wishing Well, 32, Mount Ephraim, TN4 8AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 582 398
- Coordinates
- 51.13581, 0.26058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wishing Well, located at No 32 Mount Ephraim, is a building dating from around 1830. It stands three storeys tall and features painted weather-boarding with a hipped slate roof. The building has two windows facing east and two windows facing south, which are either casement or French windows. An iron balcony with a hood is present on the first floor of both front elevations. The ground floor has a modern shop front. Nos 24 to 32 (even) form a group.
Local climate
The Wishing Well 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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