River House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. House. 4 related planning applications.

River House

WRENN ID
kindled-span-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
House
Address
River House, King Street, Fordwich, CT2 0DB
OS grid reference
TR 180 597
Coordinates
51.29526, 1.12568
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

River House is a mid-17th century timber-framed building located on the north side of King Street in Fordwich. The east wall features painted brick infilling, while the street-facing side has been refronted with painted brick. The building has a tiled roof and stands two storeys high, with an attic in the gable end. On the first floor, there are two windows with wooden lintels and later glazing bars. The ground floor includes one window with two lights and a segmental head, which has later hung sashes with glazing bars. Additionally, there is a modern door set within a wooden porch that has a hipped tiled roof.

Local climate

River 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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