5, Best Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.
5, Best Lane
- WRENN ID
- winter-spire-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Best Lane, CT1 2JB
- OS grid reference
- TR 148 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28036, 1.07949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Best Lane is a timber-framed building that was altered in the 18th century. It is two storeys high, with the first floor finished with rough cast rendering and the ground floor with cement rendering. The roof is tiled, featuring one hipped dormer and a large brick stack. Two sash windows are present on the first floor, set within moulded architraves; the window on the right side has a Gothic pointed light. A bressumer is visible. On the ground floor are one mullioned and transomed casement window and one sash window. The door is set within a moulded wooden doorcase, which has a weatherhood supported by brackets and pilasters, and a recessed door. The side elevation is largely clad with weatherboarding, and there are traces of curved braces. Nos. 3 to 12, Best Lane form a group.
Local climate
5, Best 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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