Lea House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. House.
Lea House
- WRENN ID
- turning-pilaster-martin
- 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
- Lea House, 4, Upper Strand Street, Sandwich, CT13 9EF
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27513, 1.34191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lea House is a late 18th century or early 19th century building located on Upper Strand Street. It has two storeys and features two windows. The exterior is finished with stucco and has a wooden eaves cornice. The roof is covered with modern tiles, but the glazing bars remain intact. The entrance is a recessed doorway flanked by pilasters, topped with a projecting cornice and a rectangular fanlight. The door is a six-panel fielded design, with the top two panels being glazed. There is a 19th-century gas lamp on a bracket at the corner of Lea House, which has been converted to electricity. This lamp features a mounted lantern supported by four curved ogee braces, with a square plan that is larger at the top than at the bottom. The lantern is adorned with anthemion foliage at each corner of its sloping roof and has a bell-shaped vent with a scalloped cap and finial on top. Lea House is part of a group with Nos 2 to 12 (even) and Nos 11 to 19 (odd) on High Street.
Local climate
Lea House 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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