Pennyless Bench is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Lodge. 7 related planning applications.
Pennyless Bench
- WRENN ID
- roaming-portal-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Pennyless Bench, 1, Summer Hill, Harbledown and Rough Common, CT2 8NH
- OS grid reference
- TR 134 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28108, 1.05918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pennyless Bench is a lodge built around 1840. It is a single-storey structure with a stucco exterior and a slate roof featuring two gables. The building has two windows with ogee-shaped heads and decorative glazing. There is a weather porch that includes a central doorcase topped with an elliptical fanlight.
Local climate
Pennyless Bench 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 — 7 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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