The Old Ship is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Inn.
The Old Ship
- WRENN ID
- noble-iron-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old Ship, High Street, Wingham, CT3 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 243 576
- Coordinates
- 51.27421, 1.21481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ship is a 16th-century inn that has been converted into a house. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of three framed bays with a cross passage or smoke bay. It stands two storeys high and has a continuous jetty with a hipped roof, which includes a stack at the left end. On the first floor, there are three leaded wooden casements, while the ground floor has three canted bays, with the left bay featuring a half-glazed door and another half-glazed door located at the centre right.
Local climate
The Old Ship 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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