The Old Parsonage is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Parsonage
- WRENN ID
- standing-passage-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Parsonage, 113, High Street, ME8 8AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 818 659
- Coordinates
- 51.36308, 0.61015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Parsonage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a 19th-century extension on the left and alterations made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features a large central ridge stack on the rear roof, along with a tiled roof that has two hips at the front and an axial rear connecting ridge.
The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range. It is double fronted, with a plat band running around the building and projecting rafters. The central entrance has a 20th-century timber doorcase that includes an architrave, a bracketed pediment, and a panelled door. Flanking the entrance are segmental-arched windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has a 20th-century tripartite 6/6-pane sash window and two casement hipped dormers. To the left, there is a mid-19th-century projecting service block made of similar materials, featuring a hipped roof, left-hand stacks, and a 20th-century three-light casement window at the front. The left-hand return may include a hipped stair tower.
The interior has not been inspected. The house may represent an early form of a double-pile house, notable for its large central stack.
Local climate
The Old Parsonage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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