32, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
32, High Street
- WRENN ID
- proud-keystone-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 32, High Street, ME1 1LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 686
- Coordinates
- 51.39047, 0.50292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 32 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with accommodation above. It features 18th-century remodelling of an earlier structure. The building is positioned end-on to the street and has lateral stairs. It is weatherboarded on a timber frame and has a hipped Kent clay tile roof that slopes towards the street. The building has three storeys and a three-window range. The late 19th-century shop front includes two fluted pilasters. The first floor has 12-pane horned sash windows, while the second floor has 9-pane hornless sash windows. There is a dentilled eaves cornice. Inside, there is a fragment of a 17th-century turned baluster staircase that leads from the first to the second floor. One arch brace truss is visible in the roof.
Local climate
32, High Street 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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