2, Monastery Street is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. House. 6 related planning applications.
2, Monastery Street
- WRENN ID
- twisted-attic-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TR 153 577
- Coordinates
- 51.278, 1.0864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 Monastery Street is a timber-framed building that was refaced in the 18th century. It has two storeys, with the ground floor made of red brick and the first floor oversailing and hung with tiles. The entire west front is faced with red mathematical tiles, and it features a tiled roof with a half-hipped gable that contains an attic window. There are five sash windows with intact glazing bars. This building is part of a group that includes No 1, the wall adjoining No 1 to the right, a water pump opposite No 1, Nos 4 to 18 (even), St Augustine's College, Hall, Chapel, The Cemetery Gateway, The Great Gateway, and the wall in front of St Augustine's.
Local climate
2, Monastery 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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