48a and 48b, St Margaret's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.

48a and 48b, St Margaret's Street

WRENN ID
north-newel-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1974
Type
House
Address
48a and 48b, St Margaret's Street, ME1 1TU
OS grid reference
TQ 740 682
Coordinates
51.38628, 0.50037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

An early 19th century house with a shop, located on St Margaret’s Street, Rochester. The building is constructed of gault brick, with a Welsh slate hipped roof. It has a double-depth plan and lateral and rear stacks. The house is three storeys high and features a regular two-window front, topped with a parapet incorporating stone coping and a cornice band. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set in reveals beneath flat window arches. Three large S-ties are visible. A plate glass shop window, with an off-centre entrance flanked by pilasters and a panelled plinth, occupies the front. The right return shows the outline of a demolished adjacent building and contains hornless sash windows, along with a simple side entrance. The left return also features sash windows, some of which are blank.

Local climate

48a and 48b, 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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  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 2004
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  • 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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