286, St. Margarets Banks is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. House. 1 related planning application.

286, St. Margarets Banks

WRENN ID
under-rafter-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1991
Type
House
Address
286, St. Margarets Banks, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1HT
OS grid reference
TQ 748 680
Coordinates
51.38415, 0.51107
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 286 St. Margarets Banks is a house dating from the late 18th century, which has undergone significant renewal and some later alterations. The building is constructed of brick and features an artificial slate roof. It stands three storeys tall with a regular two-window arrangement on the front. The upper floors have twelve-pane sash windows set beneath flat brick arches. On the ground floor, there is an inserted canted bay window with 8:12:8-pane sashes. To the right of the bay, the doorway features a double concentric round-headed arch with an impost band, leading to a panelled door topped with a fanlight. The left side of the building is plain.

Local climate

286, St. Margarets Banks 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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