St Martin's Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. A C18 Priory. 4 related planning applications.

St Martin's Priory

WRENN ID
half-basalt-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1967
Type
Priory
Address
St Martin's Priory, St Martin's Hill, CT1 1PW
OS grid reference
TR 159 577
Coordinates
51.27752, 1.09434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Martin's Priory is an 18th-century building located on St Martin's Hill. The exterior has been refaced with roughcast and features two storeys, with two brick buttresses at the east end. It has a half-hipped tiled roof with a wooden eaves cornice and three dormers. A stringcourse runs along the building, and there are seven sashes with intact glazing bars. There is a modern addition to the west of the structure.

Local climate

St Martin's Priory 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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