Kent Music School is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1980. School. 14 related planning applications.

Kent Music School

WRENN ID
idle-string-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1980
Type
School
Address
Kent Music School, 1, Pound Lane, CT1 2BZ
OS grid reference
TR 146 581
Coordinates
51.28166, 1.07614
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kent Music School, located at 1 Pound Lane, was built in 1827 as a police station. The building is two storeys high and constructed of buff brick with a part stone plinth and long and short quoins, likely made from re-used medieval masonry. It features a crenellated parapet and a moulded cornice. There are two four-centred arches spanning both storeys, each with hoodmoulding. The windows are also four-centred arched and have Y-tracery. The main entrance is a four-centred arched doorway, again with hoodmoulding. Inside, there is a brick vaulted basement and light cells with barred windows.

Local climate

Kent Music School 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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