Magnolia House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. House.
Magnolia House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-vestry-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Magnolia House, 141, Lower Rainham Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 686
- Coordinates
- 51.38844, 0.58344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magnolia House is a house dating from the late 18th century, which has been altered and extended in the mid to late 20th century. It is constructed of brick, timber-framing, and weatherboarding, featuring a brick ridge stack located behind the ridge. The building has a two-room parallel plan with single-storey ranges at the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range, presenting a double-fronted façade that includes a 20th-century door, 8/8-pane sashes on the ground floor, and 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor, all in exposed frames. The left-hand side has a ground-floor 8/8-pane sash and a small first-floor casement. The rear extensions from the mid-20th century do not have special interest.
Inside, there is a lobby that leads to an early 19th-century dogleg stair featuring stick balusters, curtails on each side, a decorative cast-iron newel, and a wreathed rail, with the stack positioned behind the stair. Historically, Magnolia House was originally partly connected with No. 143, and a cill and wall plate extend across the two properties.
Local climate
Magnolia House 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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