16a, Best Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
16a, Best Lane
- WRENN ID
- south-lantern-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16a, Best Lane, CT1 2JB
- OS grid reference
- TR 148 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28012, 1.07948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building of three storeys, constructed from red brick. The ground floor has been painted. It features a stone coping and a stone stringcourse. The upper floors have three sash windows with original glazing bars. The ground-floor windows are round-headed sashes. A doorcase on the left side has a semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, and a six-panelled door, approached by four stone steps. The building is part of a group value context with numbers 16 to 20 (inclusive), numbers 22, and number 23.
Local climate
16a, Best Lane 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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