The Bow Window Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Restaurant. 3 related planning applications.
The Bow Window Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- late-lancet-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Bow Window Restaurant, 50, High Street, Littlebourne, CT3 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TR 208 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27361, 1.16512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bow Window Restaurant is a late 15th to early 16th century timber-framed building located on the north-east side of High Street in Littlebourne. It has two storeys, with a bressumer and diagonal braces visible on the side elevation. The front elevation is made of painted brick, and it features a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof. There are two casement windows, a brick stringcourse, and one blocked original window opening.
Local climate
The Bow Window Restaurant 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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