The Dickens Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Dickens Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-merlon-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1991
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Dickens Hotel, 5, 6 and 7, New Road, ME1 1BG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 747 679
- Coordinates
- 51.38337, 0.50972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dickens Hotel is a former terrace of three houses, now functioning as a hotel, built around 1840. It is constructed of Flemish bond gault brick with plain plaster details and has a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with attics, featuring two bays for each house. The ground floor of each house includes one tripartite plate glass sash window, while the first and second floors have two 4-pane plate glass sashes each. A Tuscan Doric verandah with eight columns creates three porches, along with one additional intermediate column, and is topped with a cornice and parapet. The building has rusticated quoins, a rusticated first-floor plat band, and a parapet with a cornice. There is a single stack, and all arched doors have been replaced with plate glass doors; notably, the door to No 6 has been entirely replaced with a window. The building has a long return to Nag's Head Lane, which features more pronounced Italianate details in its openings, while the right return is completely plain.
Local climate
The Dickens Hotel 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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