Bleak House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. House and manufactory. 1 related planning application.
Bleak House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-vault-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- House and manufactory
- Address
- Bleak House, High Street, Wingham, CT3 1AZ
- OS grid reference
- TR 243 572
- Coordinates
- 51.27049, 1.21447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleak House is a late 18th-century house and manufactory, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick on a red brick base, with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with a moulded wooden dentil eaves cornice and a hipped roof, featuring stacks at the rear. The fenestration is regular, comprised of two two-storey canted bays, with the eaves cornice carried over their heads and repeated over the ground floor openings. There is a blocked window space in the centre of the first floor and a central door consisting of six raised and fielded panels, accompanied by a semi-circular traceried fanlight and an open pediment supported by engaged columns. A two-storey rear wing with a pantiled roof is visible to the right, featuring a continuously glazed upper storey and ground floor. A half-glazed, elliptically headed door, set within a glazed surround and small framed glazing panels, is also incorporated into the rear wing.
Local climate
Bleak 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- 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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