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

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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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