The Rattling Cat is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. Public house.
The Rattling Cat
- WRENN ID
- dusted-clay-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Rattling Cat, 277, Dover Road, Walmer
- OS grid reference
- TR 369 502
- Coordinates
- 51.20259, 1.39024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rattling Cat is an 18th-century building located on Dover Road in Walmer. It is two storeys high and constructed of painted brick. The building features three sash windows with intact glazing bars, Venetian shutters on the first floor, and solid wooden shutters on the ground floor. The ground floor windows have cambered head linings. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase with Doric pilasters, a pediment, a semi-circular fanlight, and a six-panel moulded door. The Rattling Cat, along with No 279, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
The Rattling Cat receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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