Preston House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. A C18 House.
Preston House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-frieze-reed
- 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
- Preston House, 29, High Street, Sandwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 331 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27474, 1.34167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preston House is a mid-18th century building located on the east side of High Street. It stands three storeys tall and features two windows, with one blocked window space in the center. The structure is made of red brick, and the parapet and upper part were rebuilt in the 19th century. It has brick architraves over the ground and first floor windows, with glazing bars intact only on the top floor. A small round-headed recess is situated in the center between the first and second floor windows. The doorway is adorned with pilasters and has a flat hood supported by brackets shaped like winged griffins. It also features a rectangular fanlight and a six-panel fielded door. Preston House is part of a group that includes Nos 23 to 31A on the street.
Local climate
Preston House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
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