8, Palace Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. House. 3 related planning applications.

8, Palace Street

WRENN ID
upper-column-wren
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 December 1949
Type
House
Address
8, Palace Street, CT1 2DY
OS grid reference
TR 149 579
Coordinates
51.28051, 1.08094
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

No. 8 Palace Street is a house constructed from medieval and later fragments brought from other locations, likely dating to the late 19th century. It is a three-storey timber-framed building with plaster infill, featuring curved braces. The roof is covered in old tiles. Inside, exposed joists and finely moulded bressumers are visible, embellished with scrollwork and coil moulding. The windows are continuous lancets with leaded lights; the ground floor windows are double lancets flanked by Victorian Tudor Rose ornaments. A restored central doorcase features plain spandrels, and the ground floor is marked by two Sun Fire Office plaques from 1710. The side elevation is tile-hung and includes a gable with two small lancet windows. The interior retains moulded beams and two stone arches. A plaque denotes its status as a historic building in Kent. Nos. 1, 2, and Nos. 4 to 8 form a group.

Local climate

8, Palace 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • 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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