West Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
West Croft
- WRENN ID
- secret-chimney-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Croft, 25, High Street, Sandwich, CT13 9EB
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27488, 1.34166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Croft is an early 19th-century building on the east side of High Street. It is three storeys high and has four windows. The ground floor is faced with red mathematical tiles, while the upper floors are covered with early 20th-century weather tiles, some of which are curved. A modillion eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The original glazing bars remain intact, and there are two-bay windows on the ground floor. The doorway features pilasters, a projecting cornice, a rectangular fanlight, and a six-panel door. West Croft forms a group with Nos. 23 to 31A (odd).
Local climate
West Croft 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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