Candlemas House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. A C18 House.
Candlemas House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-casement-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Candlemas House, 42 and 42a, St Margaret's Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 740 682
- Coordinates
- 51.3864, 0.50049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Candlemas House is a house from the early to mid 18th century, located on Rochester Street in St Margaret's. The building is constructed of brick, which may be cladding an earlier timber frame, and features a Kent-tile gable-end roof. The front range runs parallel to the street and has a hipped rear wing, with a stack positioned at the rear or on the ridge. The house has two storeys with an attic.
The front facade displays a regular arrangement of two windows, along with two dormers featuring Yorkshire sashes. The windows have four-pane horned sashes set in reveals, with flat arches above the first-floor windows and cambered arches above the two ground-floor windows. The doorway is off-centre, with reveals, a surround, and a cornice supported by console brackets, leading to a panelled door. There is also a newer doorway located at the extreme right.
Local climate
Candlemas House 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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