38, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. House.

38, King Street

WRENN ID
gilded-mortar-honey
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
38, King Street, Sandwich
OS grid reference
TR 331 580
Coordinates
51.27399, 1.34101
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 38 on King Street is likely a much earlier building, probably from the 15th century, with an 18th-century facade. The ground and first floors feature one window with glazing bars arranged in 12 squares. The first floor is stuccoed, and there is an eaves cornice with grouped consoles above a tiled roof. The building has a modern shop front. No 38 is part of a group that includes Nos 38 to 54 (even).

Local climate

38, 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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