16, The Beach is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. House.

16, The Beach

WRENN ID
lapsed-tower-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1949
Type
House
Address
16, The Beach, Walmer
OS grid reference
TR 377 512
Coordinates
51.21089, 1.40238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 16, The Beach, is an early 19th-century building located in Walmer. It is two storeys tall with an attic and a basement, and it features a stuccoed exterior. A mansarded slate roof has been added to enlarge the top floor, which includes one double-sashed dormer. The building has a cornice and a parapet. On the ground floor, there is a wooden balcony with intact glazing bars, and above it, a French window is fitted with Venetian shutters. To the south, there is a ground floor addition that includes one window and a porch, with an iron railing above that creates a verandah. At the rear, there is a recessed wing with one window added on the first floor.

Local climate

16, The Beach receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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