Minor Canons' Row is a Grade I listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. A 1736 Row of houses. 7 related planning applications.
Minor Canons' Row
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-roof-dust
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- Minor Canons' Row, 1-7, the Precinct, ME1 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 684
- Coordinates
- 51.38829, 0.50275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of houses built in 1736 for the minor canons of Rochester Cathedral. The buildings are constructed of brick with Kent tile hipped roofs. Each house has an entrance and staircase to the left, sheltered under double valley roofs with a large chimney stack on alternating ridges. The houses are three storeys high with a basement containing an area. Each house has a three-window front and a parapet with a dentilled cornice, as well as a plat band separating the floors. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with exposed frames, set within rubbed brick flat arches. Doorways are accessed by steps and feature a simple moulded surround, a canopy, a panelled door, and a rectangular overlight. The rear elevation has 2-light casement windows with a transom and glazing bars on the second floor, and 12-pane sashes under depressed window arches on the first floor, with some casements evident.
Local climate
Minor Canons' Row 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 — 11 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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