Numbers 52 and 54 and Attached Front Area and Step Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1996. Residential. 2 related planning applications.

Numbers 52 and 54 and Attached Front Area and Step Railings

WRENN ID
woven-moat-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1996
Type
Residential
Address
Numbers 52 and 54 and Attached Front Area and Step Railings, New Road, ME4 4QR
OS grid reference
TQ 758 675
Coordinates
51.38005, 0.52492
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

A pair of attached houses, Numbers 52 and 54, originally built in the late 18th century and now used as offices. The houses are constructed of brick with stone dressings, have brick rear stacks, and a mansard roof.

They are each two storeys high, with an attic and a basement, and feature a single-window front. The raised ground floor sits above a rendered basement and has round-arched entry doorways with steps leading up to them. These doorways have painted fanlights and 20th-century panelled doors. The windows are sash windows with horns, featuring 6/6 panes to Number 52 and 12/12 panes to Number 54, along with 6-pane and 12-pane dormers. The basement has single windows with arched heads. The rear of the building features a catslide roof extending down below the two stacks.

Number 54 has been altered, and retains a dogleg staircase on the left side.

Attached spear-headed iron railings are present, leading up to the staircase of Number 52 and to the area and steps leading up to Number 54.

Local climate

Numbers 52 and 54 and Attached Front Area and Step Railings 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Number 58 and Attached Front Area and Step Railings Grade II 12 m
  2. 60, New Road Grade II 19 m
  3. Lord Duncan Public House Grade II 48 m
  4. Chatham House (Number 14) and Attached Front Area and Step Railings Grade II 83 m
  5. 8 and 10, New Road Grade II 132 m
  6. 4 and 6, New Road Grade II 144 m
  7. 2, New Road Grade II 158 m
  8. 19, Maidstone Road Grade II 189 m
  9. 248, High Street Grade II 221 m
  10. Statue of Thomas Waghorn Grade II 232 m