No 30, Incuding Railings to Basement Area at Front is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
No 30, Incuding Railings to Basement Area at Front
- WRENN ID
- under-spandrel-dawn
- 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
- No 30, Incuding Railings to Basement Area at Front, St Margaret's Street, ME1 1TU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 740 682
- Coordinates
- 51.38669, 0.50067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 30 is a house located on Rochester Street in St. Margaret's, dating from the 18th century, with later extensions and part of a 17th-century building incorporated at the rear. The house is primarily constructed of brick, while the older section is timber-framed and clad, with the rear rendered. The roof is covered with concrete pantiles and Welsh slates. The 17th-century part, which is set back from the street, now serves as a rear wing to the main 18th-century house, which itself was extended at the back in the 19th and 20th centuries, creating a double-depth plan. The building is mainly two and three storeys high.
The front elevation was originally a symmetrical three-storey, three-window arrangement, but it has been altered by the addition of a two-storey canted bay on the right. The parapet features a cornice band and stone coping. The second storey includes Diocletian windows with sashes, except for the centre window, which has a pivotal casement. There is a plat band between the first and second floors, with tripartite sashes in the left window bay (two:four:two and four:twelve:four panes respectively). The canted bay has four-pane side sashes and tripartite sashes at the centre on each floor. The doorcase features a pediment with Ionic attached columns and a half-glazed door. The basement area is protected by spear-headed railings, which are raised at the centre over a gate for deliveries.
The rear elevation has been significantly altered, featuring a late 20th-century room and balcony above. Inside, there is a Georgian staircase, which has been largely renewed, with a wreathed rail and turned newels. A 17th-century winder stair remains, along with some original framing and sections of the roof.
Local climate
No 30, Incuding Railings to Basement Area at Front 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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