Rat's Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Rat's Castle
- WRENN ID
- spare-stone-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rat's Castle, Wingham, CT3 1NW
- OS grid reference
- TR 235 564
- Coordinates
- 51.26353, 1.20262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rat's Castle is a house dating from the 17th century. It is built of red brick and has a stack to the left side. A hipped dormer window is visible on the roof. The front features four segmentally headed wooden casement windows. A central boarded door is set within a hipped porch, with a small terracotta side light beside it. A small, blocked brick mullioned window is present on the right return.
Local climate
Rat's Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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