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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2004
- 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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