Rats Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rats Castle
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cellar-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rats Castle, Green Street Green Road, Longfield and New Barn, DA2 8DX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 589 697
- Coordinates
- 51.40453, 0.28449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rats Castle is a building likely dating from the late 17th century, and which has been altered since. It is two storeys high. The ground floor is painted brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is tiled and has a brick chimneystack to the west. The front features three casement windows and a 19th-century gabled weather porch.
Local climate
Rats Castle sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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