Thanington House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. House.
Thanington House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-latch-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thanington House, 140, Wincheap
- OS grid reference
- TR 142 570
- Coordinates
- 51.27275, 1.06963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thanington House is an early 19th-century building located at 140 Wincheap. It stands three storeys tall and is cement rendered, featuring a rusticated base, cornice, and parapet. The facade includes three sash windows, although some glazing bars are missing, and two bay windows on the ground floor. There are iron balconies on the first floor and distinctive quarter spherical hoods above the windows. The porch is supported by two Tuscan columns and has a semi-circular fanlight above a six-panelled door. On either side of the house, there are two curved cemented walls with coping. Thanington House is part of a group that includes Nos 126 to 136 (even) and No 140.
Local climate
Thanington 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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