5, King Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
5, King Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-gable-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1950
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 5, King Street, Sandwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 330 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27454, 1.34036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 King Street is a 16th century, two-storey building featuring a tiled roof. The façade includes one window made of small red Dutch brick and a stringcourse. There is an early 19th century small shop window with plain pilasters and a plain fascia above, which has beaded edging and intact glazing bars. The doorway is topped with a four-centred arch that has drips above it. Inside, there are ceiling beams and wrought iron ties in four locations. Additionally, there is a label string above the shop window and another string below the first-floor window.
Local climate
5, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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