House About 20 Metres South of Preston House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
House About 20 Metres South of Preston House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-storey-dust
- 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
- OS grid reference
- TR 250 610
- Coordinates
- 51.30376, 1.22753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located about 20 metres south of Preston House, is a house that was once a pair of cottages. It dates from the early 18th century and features painted brick with a rendered left return. The roof is thatched, while the rear wing has a plain tiled roof. The structure has one storey and an attic, topped with a hipped roof. There are two raking dormers, with stacks located at the rear and on the right end. The front facade includes two segmental-headed glazing bar sashes and two central boarded doors, along with a hipped extension to the right. A 20th-century glazed door is present in the rear wing. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
House About 20 Metres South of Preston 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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