40 40a, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. Building. 1 related planning application.
40 40a, King Street
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- 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
- Building
- Address
- 40 40a, King Street, Sandwich, CT13 9BL
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 580
- Coordinates
- 51.27395, 1.34107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building, comprised of numbers 40 and 40A, King Street, and it is part of a group with numbers 38 to 54 (even). The building has a tiled roof and two storeys. The upper floor is painted brick, and there are two sash windows with 12 panes of glazing bars in each. A late Victorian shop front extends across the ground floor, featuring columns at the return corner of each window, with a central entrance. Each column has a moulded cap. The entrance is accessed by a pair of glazed doors beneath a wrought iron fanlight. A modern fascia and blind box are present above the shop front.
Local climate
40 40a, King Street 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 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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