78 and 79, Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Commercial building.

78 and 79, Broad Street

WRENN ID
standing-screen-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
TR 151 582
Coordinates
51.28231, 1.08377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 78 and 79 on Broad Street are early 19th-century buildings that stand three storeys tall and are constructed of red brick with stone coping. Both buildings feature four sash windows set within moulded wooden architraves. The ground floor of No 78 retains the remains of a bow and has a simple doorcase with a rectangular fanlight and moulded architraves. No 79 includes an early 19th-century shopfront characterized by two plain pilasters and a cornice. Together, Nos 66 to 79 form a cohesive group.

Local climate

78 and 79, Broad 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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