48, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. House.
48, King Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-oriel-owl
- 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
- House
- Address
- 48, King Street, Sandwich, CT13 9BL
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 580
- Coordinates
- 51.27378, 1.3412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 King Street is an early 17th century building that was refaced in the early 19th century. It has two storeys and features two windows, constructed from brown brick. The building has a modillion eaves cornice, and the glazing bars are intact. On the first floor, there is one curved window. Below, there is a contemporary or slightly later shop window with wooden shutters, although its horizontal glazing bars are missing. The doorway is adorned with pilasters, a pediment, and a six-panel fielded door, with the top two panels being glazed. The roof is tiled. Nos. 38 to 54 (even) form a group with this building.
Local climate
48, 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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