Grayling House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. House.
Grayling House
- WRENN ID
- little-cloister-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grayling House, 54, St Margaret's Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 740 681
- Coordinates
- 51.3859, 0.50018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grayling House is a house from the 18th century located on Rochester St Margaret's Street. It is constructed of brick, which is painted and rendered, and features a Kent-tile mansard roof. The building has a double-depth plan with stacks at the ends and in the valley between the roofs that run parallel to the street. It stands three storeys tall with an attic.
The front of the house is painted and has a regular two-window arrangement. There are two dormers that contain 4-pane sash windows. The eaves feature a dentil cornice. The windows are hornless sashes set in reveals under flat window arches, with nine panes on the second floor and twelve panes on the other floors. To the right of the front is a doorway that has a decorative surround, a canopy supported by shaped brackets, and panelled reveals, with a door that has a rectangular overlight above it. The left side of the house is rendered and does not have any windows. At the rear, there is a three-window range with 12-pane sash windows and two dormers, along with a small extension on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Grayling 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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