18, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
18, King Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pier-dawn
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 18, King Street, Sandwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 330 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27445, 1.34021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 18 on King Street is a three-storey timber-framed building with a slate roof. The elevation is covered with horizontal planking that resembles rustication without visible joints. On the first floor, there are two windows with glazing bars. The second floor features larger openings that were historically used for loading merchandise. The ground floor has a modern shop front. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 12 to 20 (even) on King Street, Nos 2 to 8 (even) on Austen's Lane, and Nos 13 to 21 (odd) on New Street.
Local climate
18, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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