12 and 14, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. Shop. 1 related planning application.
12 and 14, King Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-ember-tallow
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 12 and 14, King Street, Sandwich, CT13 9BT
- OS grid reference
- TR 330 581
- Coordinates
- 51.27455, 1.34009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 12 and 14 King Street are two shops, originally built as a single house, likely dating back to the 17th century behind a modern rendered wall and incorporating a tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor. No. 12 has a small, mid-19th century shop front featuring two scrolls and a cornice, enclosing modern insertions. No. 14 has a more recent shop front. Nos 12 to 20 (even), along with Nos 2 to 8 (even) in Austen’s Lane, and Nos 13 to 21 (odd) in New Street, form a group. The building is of group value.
Local climate
12 and 14, King 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 — 9 transactions since 1997
- 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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