Walpole House, King's School is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. Educational. 5 related planning applications.
Walpole House, King's School
- WRENN ID
- ragged-lime-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- Walpole House, King's School, 48, Palace Street, CT1 2EA
- OS grid reference
- TR 150 580
- Coordinates
- 51.28061, 1.0816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walpole House, part of King's School, is a late 18th-century building located at 48 Palace Street. It is three storeys tall with a semi-basement, constructed of red brick. The building features a parapet with stone coping and a stuccoed stringcourse. The northernmost window bay is recessed and has arcading over the first-floor windows. Access is via a doorway that is reached by five steps, with handrails on either side. There are narrow windows flanking the door, which has a segmental fanlight, a reeded frieze, and six-panel moulded double doors, along with a footscraper.
The rear elevation includes a medieval section, which serves as the porch to the original Archbishop's Palace. This part is two storeys high and built of flint and ashlar, featuring buttresses and sash windows. There is a blocked arch, while the rest of the building has a curved bay and three sash windows. The doorcase includes a rectangular fanlight and steps with wrought iron railings. Walpole House is part of a group that includes Nos 29 to 48 Palace Street.
Local climate
Walpole House, King's 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings