Forstal House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. House.
Forstal House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corbel-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forstal House, the Forstal, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TR 246 607
- Coordinates
- 51.30124, 1.22175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forstal House is an early 19th-century house constructed of yellow stock brick with a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys tall with a basement, featuring a parapet and chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. The first floor has four glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has three sash windows and a basement opening on the right. To the left, there is a panelled door situated within a Doric porch.
Local climate
Forstal House 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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