3, The Chain is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
3, The Chain
- WRENN ID
- young-joist-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 3, The Chain, Sandwich, CT13 9BJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 580
- Coordinates
- 51.2735, 1.34188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century timber-framed house that was altered in the 18th century, retaining its first-floor overhang supported by a bressummer. The house is two storeys high and features one sash window with intact 20-pane glazing bars. It has a pantiled roof. The front of the ground and first floors are plastered with grey Tyrolean plaster. The property forms a group with numbers 1 to 23 (odd) and 4 to 12 (even) in Church Street, St Clement, and with number 1 and outbuildings in Millwall Place.
Local climate
3, The Chain 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 2021
- 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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