Former Municipal Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Commercial. 15 related planning applications.
Former Municipal Buildings
- WRENN ID
- scattered-column-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Former Municipal Buildings, Chantry Hall, 8-10 Dane John, CT1 2QS
- OS grid reference
- TR 147 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27593, 1.07823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a mid-19th century former municipal building of three storeys and attics, with basements. It is cement-rendered with a slate roof. The left side features two pedimented dormers with stone coping and a dropped cornice with a bracket cornice to the centre portion. The ground floor on the left side has a three-light bay divided by plain pilasters. A central stone porch features a cornice, plain pilasters, and a round-headed doorcase. A late 19th-century three-storey extension is located at the right end, incorporating an oriel window. The right side has two fluted Doric doorcases. The building forms a group with the former municipal buildings at numbers 12, 12A, and numbers 14 to 23.
Local climate
Former Municipal Buildings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 53 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 15 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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