The Central Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House, shop.
The Central Stores
- WRENN ID
- buried-footing-root
- 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, shop
- Address
- The Central Stores, High Street, Wingham
- OS grid reference
- TR 243 576
- Coordinates
- 51.2741, 1.21529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Stores is a house and shop dated 1758, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a kneelered parapet gable on the right side. There are two hipped dormers and a stack on the left. The first floor has two sash windows, while the ground floor includes two canted plate glass bay windows and a central glazed door. A date stone is located at the centre of the first floor, marking the year 1758. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Central Stores 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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