22 and 23, Best Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. Pair of houses.
22 and 23, Best Lane
- WRENN ID
- carved-rampart-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Pair of houses
- OS grid reference
- TR 148 579
- Coordinates
- 51.2804, 1.07975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 22 and 23 on Best Lane are an early 18th-century pair of buildings. They are three storeys high and constructed of painted brick. The buildings feature a parapet with stone coping and a dropped stone bracket cornice, along with a rainwater head. The second floor has four casement windows, while the first floor has five sash windows, one of which is a three-light window, with some glazing bars still intact. There are two string courses, one of which is a flint band, and a plinth at the base.
The left side doorcase includes a weatherhood with brackets, a rectangular fanlight, and a later door, accessed by two stone steps. The right side doorcase features an elliptical fanlight with a wooden architrave and three stone steps. There is a central cambered passageway with a brick keystone. The side elevation has one sash window and one blank wall.
Nos 16A to 20, along with Nos 22 and 23, form a group.
Local climate
22 and 23, Best Lane 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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