Kent House the County Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. County court.
Kent House the County Court
- WRENN ID
- frozen-quoin-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- County court
- Address
- Kent House the County Court, Spital Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 539 741
- Coordinates
- 51.44511, 0.21436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kent House, also known as The County Court, is a mid-19th century building located on Spital Street. It is constructed of stock brick and has two storeys topped with a hipped slate roof. The first floor features four cambered double sash windows, while the ground floor has four round-headed sash windows, each adorned with keystones. A modillion cornice and a stringcourse add decorative elements to the façade. Above the round-headed doorcase, there is a royal cartouche. Kent House, along with Nos 39 to 43 (odd) and the Methodist Church, forms a group of buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Kent House the County Court 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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