16, Mercery Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. A C18 Commercial/residential. 1 related planning application.

16, Mercery Lane

WRENN ID
stranded-brick-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1967
Type
Commercial/residential
Address
16, Mercery Lane, CT1 2JJ
OS grid reference
TR 149 578
Coordinates
51.27905, 1.08106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century building on Mercery Lane, originally part of number 38 Burgate. It is three storeys high and built of painted brick, with a stone coping. A dormer is present on the roof. The building has a rounded corner. It features three sash windows with intact glazing bars, set within moulded architraves, and has brick arches and stone sills. A later 19th-century wooden shop front with panelled risers is also present. Number 16 forms a group with numbers 1 to 8A (consecutive), numbers 10 to 16 (consecutive), and numbers 38 to 44 (consecutive) on Burgate, as well as numbers 1 to 9 (consecutive) on Butchery Lane. It also forms a grouped setting with numbers 10 to 16 (consecutive) and numbers 6A & 7 The Parade.

Local climate

16, Mercery 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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  • Sale history — 11 transactions since 2012
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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  10. 37, Burgate Grade II* 29 m