55, Strand Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. A C18 Commercial. 1 related planning application.
55, Strand Street
- WRENN ID
- over-chancel-lake
- 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
- 55, Strand Street, Sandwich, CT13 9EU
- OS grid reference
- TR 330 583
- Coordinates
- 51.27674, 1.33952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building of three storeys located on the south side of Strand Street. It is constructed of red brick and features five windows. A painted wooden cornice runs above the second floor, with a stringcourse marking the divisions between the ground and first floors. The building is topped with a brick parapet, and the original glazing bars remain intact in the windows above the ground floor. An early 19th-century doorway is characterised by pilasters, a projecting cornice, and a rectangular fanlight. The roof is tiled and hipped. Number 55 forms a group with numbers 47 to 57 (odd) and boundary walls associated with numbers 29 to 35 (odd) and with number 38 Bowling Street.
Local climate
55, Strand 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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