The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-merlon-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, 3, Sea Street, CT6 8SP
- OS grid reference
- TR 169 680
- Coordinates
- 51.37013, 1.11504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a building dating from around 1830, located on Sea Street in Herne Bay. It is two storeys high and finished in stucco. The structure features a central portion flanked by two wings. The centre section has three windows and slightly projects forward. Above it, there is a cornice and parapet made up of alternating solid panels and open balustrading. The first floor has an iron balcony with a heart and honeysuckle motif, interpreted freely. The windows are surrounded by moulded architraves, with sash windows on the ground floor that retain their glazing bars, and French windows on the first floor. The wings have a cornice and blocking course at the top. Each wing has a blocked window space on the ground floor and a panel on the first floor that imitates a Venetian shutter. The facade features a solid Doric porch in the centre, flanked by pilasters.
Local climate
The Retreat 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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