16, Watling Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
16, Watling Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-pinnacle-ridge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 16, Watling Street, CT1 2AU
- OS grid reference
- TR 148 575
- Coordinates
- 51.27694, 1.07923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 Watling Street is one of the finest individual houses in Canterbury, dating from the early 18th century. It has an L-shaped design and is built of brick in English bond, featuring a stone parapet and quoins. The building has three rainwater heads and five sash windows with moulded architraves. On the ground floor, there are three round-headed sash windows and one three-light bay window. The doorcase is adorned with a flat cornice, two plain Tuscan columns, and two pilasters, topped with a rectangular fanlight that has glazing bars and a six-panel fielded door.
Inside, the house boasts an early 18th-century staircase, which includes two spiral balusters on each tread, scrolled tread ends, and a fluted newel post. The ground floor features an early 19th-century fireplace with fluted pilasters and a panel decorated with swags and sheafs of wheat. There are also some remnants of panelling on the first floor.
Local climate
16, Watling 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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