53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- first-passage-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, High Street, ME1 1LN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 743 686
- Coordinates
- 51.38994, 0.50375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a house with a shop, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a Welsh slate roof with a right-hand end stack. The building stands three storeys high and has a regular three-window arrangement. A parapet with stone coping and a cornice band adorns the top. The upper floors are fitted with 12-pane hornless sash windows, which have rubbed brick flat window arches and stone sills.
On the ground floor, an impost band connects round-headed arches over doorways on either side of a late 20th-century shop window that includes glazing bars. The ground floor is stuccoed and has a plinth. A bust of Charles Dickens is positioned above the left-hand door, and there are 20th-century doors with rectangular overlights. Additionally, there is a fluted lead rainwater head located between Nos. 51 and 53. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
53, High 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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