Bear and Key Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1977. Hotel. 21 related planning applications.
Bear and Key Hotel
- WRENN ID
- pitched-facade-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1977
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bear and Key Hotel, 1 and 3, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TR 106 666
- Coordinates
- 51.36025, 1.02436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear and Key Hotel is a four-storey brick building from the mid-19th century, located on the east side of High Street. It features plain tiled roofs for both the main structure and the dormers, which include five dormers with carved bargeboards. The building has a brick modillion eaves cornice and four bay windows on the first and second floors, with intact glazing bars and tiled roofs over the second-floor windows. There is one sash window in the center of the second floor, which has a yellow brick flat arch and keystone. The ground floor is rendered and rusticated, with four bays that have been altered but still feature glazing bars. The central doorway is topped with an entablature supported by brackets.
Local climate
Bear and Key Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 21 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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