56 and 57, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
56 and 57, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- lost-hammer-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 56 and 57, Castle Street, CT1 2PY
- OS grid reference
- TR 146 575
- Coordinates
- 51.27664, 1.07634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 56 and 57 Castle Street are an early 18th-century building of two storeys, constructed in painted brick. The roof is a mansard style, covered in old tiles and featuring three dormers. Number 56 retains its original sash windows with intact glazing bars, while Number 57 has a restored 19th-century shopfront. Number 56 has a simple six-panelled door within a 19th-century wooden surround. The buildings are part of a group that includes Nos 49 to 67 on the same side of the street.
Local climate
56 and 57, Castle Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- 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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