53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. A C18 House.

53, High Street

WRENN ID
western-hall-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1976
Type
House
Address
53, High Street, Sandwich
OS grid reference
TR 331 580
Coordinates
51.27402, 1.34179
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 53 High Street is an 18th-century house made of painted brick. It has two storeys and features two windows with intact glazing bars. The doorway is framed and has a four-panel fielded door. This building, along with Nos. 53 to 57 (odd) High Street, Nos. 1 to 5 (odd) Church Street, and Nos. 22 to 34 (even) Fisher Street, forms a group of significant structures.

Local climate

53, High 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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