Great Walmstone is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.

Great Walmstone

WRENN ID
tangled-slate-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Great Walmstone, Preston
OS grid reference
TR 257 593
Coordinates
51.28843, 1.23551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Walmstone is a house dating from the late 16th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with the entrance elevation rendered. The roof is plain tiled and the building has an L-shaped plan.

The entrance front features two storeys on a plinth, with a hipped roof and a projecting hipped wing to the right. There is a cluster of stacks to the right and a 19th-century stack to the left. On the left return of the projecting wing, there is a two-storey hipped entrance porch, which includes a glazing bar sash window on the first floor set in a chamfered surround with a label hood. The entrance has a 20th-century rib and stud door within a chamfered arched surround. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of wooden casements and glazing bar sashes.

The rear elevation has two storeys and an attic on a high plinth, with a projecting and offset section to the right. It features a hipped roof with two hipped dormers and stacks to the right and rear left. The fenestration is again irregular, with wooden casements and glazing bar sashes in three original chamfered surrounds with labels on the first floor. The rightmost window, although now bricked in, retains its original wooden mullions. On the ground floor to the left, there is one wooden casement with a label-drip surround and a segmental headed glazing bar sash. A boarded door is located to the right, and there is a tiled outshot at the end right.

Local climate

Great Walmstone sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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