26, St Margaret's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
26, St Margaret's Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-marble-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 741 682
- Coordinates
- 51.38691, 0.50084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 St Margaret's Street is a detached house built in the early to mid-18th century. It features a timber frame, with weatherboarding on the right side and plaster on the other elevations. The roof is covered with Kent tiles and has a quarter-hipped design at the front, along with a catslide roof over the services at the rear. The house has a two-room plan with an outshut and is oriented end-on to the street. It has a ridge stack and is two storeys high with an attic.
The front of the house includes a single-storey range, a two-light casement window in the gable wall, a 16-pane sash window in a revealed frame on the first floor, and two renewed sashes on the ground floor set within the frame of a former shop front, as the building used to operate as a baker's shop. There is a panelled door to the right and a tiled plinth at the base. The side walls have no windows, except for a small stair light.
Inside, the interior is modest, featuring rough ceiling beams and joists, and a rebuilt fireplace. The original two rooms on the ground floor have been combined into a single room, while the upper floors have not been inspected.
Local climate
26, St Margaret's Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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