Kent House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. House.
Kent House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rotunda-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kent House, 23, Central Parade
- OS grid reference
- TR 180 683
- Coordinates
- 51.37264, 1.13201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kent House, originally called Marine Terrace, was built in 1810 but has a later appearance. It is a three-storey building with attics and a semi-basement, finished in stucco. The roof is tiled and half-hipped at the ends. Each of the two windows and one dormer has moulded architrave surrounds with cornices above, supported on consoles. The upper floors of No 24 are missing glazing bars. There are iron balconies on the first floor of Nos 23 and 24, and also on the ground floor of No 23. The round-headed doorways feature semi-circular fanlights and moulded cornices of the same shape above. These doorways are accessed by 10 steps, with an iron handrail on one side and a shaped cement-coated brick wall on the other, which is terminated on the inner sides by a pier topped with a ball cap. No 26 has two cement walls leading to its steps. Nos 23 to 36 form a group.
Local climate
Kent House 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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