2, Castle Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. Town house. 4 related planning applications.
2, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- former-iron-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 2, Castle Street, CT1 2QH
- OS grid reference
- TR 147 576
- Coordinates
- 51.27729, 1.07791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 Castle Street is an early 19th-century facade attached to an 18th-century town house. The building has three storeys and a basement, with a stuccoed exterior. It features a moulded stone parapet coping and five 18th-century sash windows, some of which have Italianate surrounds. The central window spaces on the upper floors are blank, while the central second-floor window space has a moulded architrave. The first-floor central window space is adorned with a stone pediment, console brackets, and three paterae. The other windows on this floor have cornices and console brackets, and there are cast iron balconettes with anthemion moulding. The building includes two string courses, one of which has ovolo moulding. The ground floor is rusticated, with round-headed windows. The doorcase features a segmental fanlight and a guilloche frieze, accessed by four steps with footscrapers.
Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase with three turned balusters on each step and scrolled tread ends. The right-side ground floor room has 18th-century panelling, a carved wooden overmantel depicting flowers, and a wooden cornice frieze, along with fielded panelled doors.
Nos 1 to 9 and Nos 12 to 24 Castle Street form a group with this building.
Local climate
2, Castle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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