Whitefriars is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. House. 3 related planning applications.
Whitefriars
- WRENN ID
- muted-facade-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitefriars, Boley Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 740 685
- Coordinates
- 51.38915, 0.50053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitefriars is an early 19th-century house on Boley Hill, Rochester. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a Welsh slate hipped roof. The house is two and a half storeys high. The original front is symmetrical, with three bays, the central bay being taller by a half-story and curved. There are 12-pane hornless sash windows in the side bays, and a tripartite 8:8:8 sash window (4:4:4 to the upper half-story) in the central bay. Graffito decoration is present on the window arches, parapet, and cornice band of the central bay. A two-story extension is located to the left and includes a parapet and blocked windows, with sash windows to the left return. Tall axial stacks are present. The rear wall shares a party wall with The Friars. Whitefriars is one of a group of houses overlooking the Medway, with its main facade facing the river. When listed in July 1969, the property was known as Diocesan House.
Local climate
Whitefriars 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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