18, Best Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. House.
18, Best Lane
- WRENN ID
- roaming-remnant-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TR 148 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28022, 1.07957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 18 on Best Lane is part of a 15th-century range, along with Nos 19 and 20. The building has two storeys, with the ground floor made of painted brick and the first floor rendered. It features an old tiled roof and includes one sash window with a moulded architrave. The doorcase on the right side has a modillion frieze in the cornice and pilasters, leading to a six flush panelled door. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension with a weatherboarded gable end. The side elevation has sash windows and a simple doorcase. Nos 16A to 20, along with Nos 22 and 23, form a group.
Local climate
18, 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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