Oswalds is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Oswalds
- WRENN ID
- distant-glass-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oswalds, the Street, Bishopsbourne, CT4 5HT
- OS grid reference
- TR 188 526
- Coordinates
- 51.23119, 1.13299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oswalds is an 18th-century building located on the west side of The Street in Bishopsbourne. It is two storeys high, with a roughcast exterior over a stuccoed base, a parapet, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building features one dormer on the southeast side and five hung sash windows with glazing bars. There is a porch supported by Doric columns and topped with a pediment, leading to a door with six panels, four of which are glazed. The northeast front has two windows and a curved bow on both storeys. Notably, the author Joseph Conrad lived here for several years until his death in 1924.
Local climate
Oswalds receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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